"It's enough": Activists indicate Karl Lagerfeld
This is how Italian illustrator AleXsandro Palombo sees fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld.
© aleXsandro PalomboKarl Lagerfeld is known for not mincing words. The Chanel designer likes to say that his revelations about Heidi Klum, Pippa Middleton or Wolfgang Joop are notorious. With comments in a French talk show he has now got a message. In early October, he said in the show "Le Grand 8" of the TV station D8 that no one wanted to see fat women on the catwalk. He also accused the overweight of being a burden on society: "The hole in the social security funds also comes from diseases that have gotten too big people," he said.
"These insults must stop"
That went too far for a group of French activists. Betty Aubrière, chairman of the association Belle ronde sexy et je m'assume (beautiful, round, sexy and I stand to myself), has the designer according to their own information. Because of the "defamation and discrimination of the community of women with curves" she filed a complaint with the prosecutor of Saintes in the western department of Charente-Maritime. "These insults on the part of public persons must stop," she explained her decision. "It's enough for us - many young girls already feel uncomfortable in their skin anyway, if they hear something like that, it's devastating for them," says Aubrière. "Today it is he who insults us, and who will it be tomorrow?" Her association has also initiated an online petition to protest the fashion creator's comments.
It was not the first time that Lagerfeld was over the weight of others. The fashion designer, who once weighed more than 100 kilos and lost weight radically with a strict diet, found in an interview with "Metro Paris" that the British singer Adele was "a bit too fat". But she has "a beautiful face and a divine voice". Even Angela Merkel he once described as "a bit obese". Lagerfeld has repeatedly sparked discussions with its blasphemers, which always brought with it great media interest. In the spring of next year the book Karl about the world and the life is to appear, in which two authors collected the pithy sayings of the designer. He himself does not seem to attach a general validity to his statements. In an interview with Stern, he once said, "I'm sorry: what I'm saying is only valid when I say it."
