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Fashion Letter: Karl Lagerfeld
Mar. 10th, 2009 07:35 pm[mood| 
busy]
[music| "Boys Boys Boys" - Lady Gaga]
Dear Karl Lagerfeld, a.k.a. The Kaiser,
I love you. I honestly do. You're just a bundle of fantastical, German, Chanel-designing awesomeness. While I sometimes question the choices you make when designing clothing for both the Chanel lines and your self-named line, I appreciate the attention to detail to use with all of your creations. Plus, you dress awesomely for a man your age. Not many men in their seventies can pull off the look that you've created for yourself, but you rock it like it's nobody's business. So, congrats.
Anyways, I decided to take a break from reading the April 2009 issue of Vanity Fair (kudos to Graydon Carter and everyone else at Vanity Fair for choosing the comedians that you did and photographing them the way that you did for this month's issue. My friends who don't normally read your magazine are now clamoring for a copy of their own) to head on over to Style.com for a look-see at the latest stuff from Paris. I've fallen behind a bit in keeping tabs on Fashion Week due to school and whatnot, hence the lack of fashion letters. I shall rectify this during my spring break next week, however. But, more to the point, I click on the link to watch the slideshow of your show for Fall/Winter 2009 Ready-to-Wear for your Karl Lagerfeld collection.
My thoughts proceed as follows: Ok. Some cool stuff here. A bit of biker chic, which I've come to expect considering how Karl Lagerfeld dresses. Fur encrusted, I guess, motorcycle helmets? Interesting. Earrings that look like those huge-ass headphones, only jewel-encrusted? Even more interesting. Hm, stuff that vaguely resembles something that Maison Martin Margiela produced a season ago. And LOTS OF FINGERLESS GLOVES.
Did you read that last part, Karl? LOTS OF FINGERLESS GLOVES. I understand that you have a penchant for wearing fingerless gloves and you know what? That's great. Like I said before, you have a style that doesn't work for a lot of people, but you work it like it's going out of style. "Going out of style" is how I feel about those fingerless gloves. And, again, I get the fact that your Karl Lagerfeld line is pretty much a translation of what you would wear if you were a woman, or if Hedi Slimane were a woman, but really? It's one thing to have fingerless gloves in the style that you're apt to wear, but it crosses a very thin line when you make FINGERLESS OPERA GLOVES. What woman in her right mind is going to show up to a formal/red carpet event rocking some bitchin' gown and FINGERLESS OPERA GLOVES? Unless it's someone like Mischa Barton or Lindsay Lohan, I HIGHLY doubt anyone would. But then again, Mischa and Lindsay aren't really in their right minds, are they? I might have a coronary if I see A.Dubs put them in the next issue of Vogue. Although Carine Roitfield might, if only to rub it in Anna Wintour's face how "daring and edgy" Vogue Paris is. (I love US Vogue, but let's face it: I see a lot of the same things from a lot of the same designers on the same models. And while they are usually both designers and models that I love, it gets kind of predicable after a while. Plus US Vogue needs some Tim Walker in its life.)
So. To end this, I would like to say that when you start creating your Karl Lagerfeld Ready-to-Wear collection for Spring/Summer 2010, design as though you have Tim Gunn near you saying wise words such as, "That's a whole lot of look," or, "Edit, edit, edit," or, my personal favorite, "DON'T BORE NINA".
With love,
Mia
busy][music| "Boys Boys Boys" - Lady Gaga]
Dear Karl Lagerfeld, a.k.a. The Kaiser,
I love you. I honestly do. You're just a bundle of fantastical, German, Chanel-designing awesomeness. While I sometimes question the choices you make when designing clothing for both the Chanel lines and your self-named line, I appreciate the attention to detail to use with all of your creations. Plus, you dress awesomely for a man your age. Not many men in their seventies can pull off the look that you've created for yourself, but you rock it like it's nobody's business. So, congrats.
Anyways, I decided to take a break from reading the April 2009 issue of Vanity Fair (kudos to Graydon Carter and everyone else at Vanity Fair for choosing the comedians that you did and photographing them the way that you did for this month's issue. My friends who don't normally read your magazine are now clamoring for a copy of their own) to head on over to Style.com for a look-see at the latest stuff from Paris. I've fallen behind a bit in keeping tabs on Fashion Week due to school and whatnot, hence the lack of fashion letters. I shall rectify this during my spring break next week, however. But, more to the point, I click on the link to watch the slideshow of your show for Fall/Winter 2009 Ready-to-Wear for your Karl Lagerfeld collection.
My thoughts proceed as follows: Ok. Some cool stuff here. A bit of biker chic, which I've come to expect considering how Karl Lagerfeld dresses. Fur encrusted, I guess, motorcycle helmets? Interesting. Earrings that look like those huge-ass headphones, only jewel-encrusted? Even more interesting. Hm, stuff that vaguely resembles something that Maison Martin Margiela produced a season ago. And LOTS OF FINGERLESS GLOVES.
Did you read that last part, Karl? LOTS OF FINGERLESS GLOVES. I understand that you have a penchant for wearing fingerless gloves and you know what? That's great. Like I said before, you have a style that doesn't work for a lot of people, but you work it like it's going out of style. "Going out of style" is how I feel about those fingerless gloves. And, again, I get the fact that your Karl Lagerfeld line is pretty much a translation of what you would wear if you were a woman, or if Hedi Slimane were a woman, but really? It's one thing to have fingerless gloves in the style that you're apt to wear, but it crosses a very thin line when you make FINGERLESS OPERA GLOVES. What woman in her right mind is going to show up to a formal/red carpet event rocking some bitchin' gown and FINGERLESS OPERA GLOVES? Unless it's someone like Mischa Barton or Lindsay Lohan, I HIGHLY doubt anyone would. But then again, Mischa and Lindsay aren't really in their right minds, are they? I might have a coronary if I see A.Dubs put them in the next issue of Vogue. Although Carine Roitfield might, if only to rub it in Anna Wintour's face how "daring and edgy" Vogue Paris is. (I love US Vogue, but let's face it: I see a lot of the same things from a lot of the same designers on the same models. And while they are usually both designers and models that I love, it gets kind of predicable after a while. Plus US Vogue needs some Tim Walker in its life.)
So. To end this, I would like to say that when you start creating your Karl Lagerfeld Ready-to-Wear collection for Spring/Summer 2010, design as though you have Tim Gunn near you saying wise words such as, "That's a whole lot of look," or, "Edit, edit, edit," or, my personal favorite, "DON'T BORE NINA".
With love,
Mia