The other day I watched a documentary called “Largerfeld Confidential”. It came free with last month’s Vogue, a magazine which, incidentally, I never knew I depended on so much until it didn’t show up in my mail box one month (I’m a subscriber) and I broke out in a cold sweat and cowered under the table rocking and muttering.
Anyhoo, for those of you who are not a fashion tragic like me, you may have no clue to who Karl Lagerfeld is. Allow me to introduce. Mr Lagerfeld is arguably the most important person in today’s high fashion industry. He is the artistic director of Chanel, has worked for numerous other fashion houses and has his own label. He’s the guy you may have seen that gets around with his white hair in a pony tail (he’s in his seventies), a black suit, high collar, fingerless gloves and boots. Oh, and he never leaves the house without his signature black sunnies.
Now to the point. In this doco he made an interesting comment about materialism. It went something like, “Right now I have no desire to own [things] … Possessions are burdensome. You mustn’t get attached to things. They’re burdensome”. Are you kidding Karl??!?!
God knows how much his assets are worth, but this will give you a hint. He has several houses in different parts of the world, his own library (the serious kind where books are stored in compactors that roll along tracks), his wardrobe consists of a huge room with racks and racks and racks of suits that are replaced each season (“I only wear last season’s clothes”), he reportedly has about 70 ipods and he travels via private jet.
I don’t want to judge (okay, well I do a bit), bit isn’t he being just a little hypocritical? Now I imagine it’d be much easier to be blasé about your possessions when you have lots and lots of them, and when there’s no real risk that one day you may actually find yourself having to hawk some just to pay the bills. I love what the man’s done for fashion, but my word he has absolutely no grip on reality. Oh to be rich and powerful…
Pull the other one Karl!
Posted by Miss Sass in Social Commentary on March 8th, 2008
The other day I watched a documentary called “Largerfeld Confidential”. It came free with last month’s Vogue, a magazine which, incidentally, I never knew I depended on so much until it didn’t show up in my mail box one month (I’m a subscriber) and I broke out in a cold sweat and cowered under the table rocking and muttering.
Anyhoo, for those of you who are not a fashion tragic like me, you may have no clue to who Karl Lagerfeld is. Allow me to introduce. Mr Lagerfeld is arguably the most important person in today’s high fashion industry. He is the artistic director of Chanel, has worked for numerous other fashion houses and has his own label. He’s the guy you may have seen that gets around with his white hair in a pony tail (he’s in his seventies), a black suit, high collar, fingerless gloves and boots. Oh, and he never leaves the house without his signature black sunnies.
Now to the point. In this doco he made an interesting comment about materialism. It went something like, “Right now I have no desire to own [things] … Possessions are burdensome. You mustn’t get attached to things. They’re burdensome”. Are you kidding Karl??!?!
God knows how much his assets are worth, but this will give you a hint. He has several houses in different parts of the world, his own library (the serious kind where books are stored in compactors that roll along tracks), his wardrobe consists of a huge room with racks and racks and racks of suits that are replaced each season (“I only wear last season’s clothes”), he reportedly has about 70 ipods and he travels via private jet.
I don’t want to judge (okay, well I do a bit), bit isn’t he being just a little hypocritical? Now I imagine it’d be much easier to be blasé about your possessions when you have lots and lots of them, and when there’s no real risk that one day you may actually find yourself having to hawk some just to pay the bills. I love what the man’s done for fashion, but my word he has absolutely no grip on reality. Oh to be rich and powerful…
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