Karl Lagerfeld

It has been announced that designer and photographer Karl Lagerfeld is to shoot the 2011 Pirelli Calendar. Which makes me wonder if all the models will be extremely skinny models.

It’s no secret that Lagerfeld is all about the skinny models and doesn’t like normal or fat bodies, so I wonder if he will be able to get such sexy shots that Terry Richardson did on this years hot Pirelli Calendar or will it be all skin and bones.

Lagerfeld spoke backstage at his fashion show saying “Iâ€™ll do it in my studio in Paris. Itâ€™s too obvious to have a beach setting.â€ He also said that he is going to get all the “top models” and begin shooting the calendar as early as April.

I think all of Karl Lagerfeld‘s photos are beautiful but I don’t exactly want beautiful shots from the Pirelli Calendar, I would rather just have sexy models.

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V Magazine’s Plus Size Issue Isn’t So Plus Size

Paul @ Gone Hollywood

V Magazine have decided that their January 2010 issue will feature a bunch of plus-sized models, this of course means there is going to be some controversy.

That is Crystal Renn in the photo above from the May 2009 issue of Glamour magazine, which also did a plus-sized issue, and she is expected to be in V’s January issue.

According to Page Six the likes of Terry Richardson, Bruce Weber and Karl Lagerfeld are all set to take photos of the models which will range from fully dressed to fully nude.

Stephen Gann, the editor in chife of V Magazine, said “Big, little, pint-size, plus-size â€” every body is beautiful. And this issue is out to prove it.”

But are these models actually plus sized? It seems not because Jezebel have come up with some very good points…..

- Lagerfeld, you may recall, once said: “No one wants to see curvy women. You’ve got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying that thin models are ugly.”

- Since V usually uses “regular” models â€” especially for its “beauty issue,” how does a one-off plus-size issue “prove” that “every body is beautiful”?

- Much like when Italian Vogue did an “all-black issue,” the flipside of highlighting one kind of model in a “special” issue is that they’re actually being segregated, placed in a ghetto, away from the other “real” models.

- This is mentioned often on this site, but worth repeating: A plus-size model is not the same as a plus-sized woman. A “plus-size model” is a model who is at least 5’9″ but has measurements above the requirements for “straight size” models, which are, roughly, 34-24-34. Basically, a plus size model could be a US size 8, 10 or 12, despite the fact that those sizes are not considered “plus” by clothing manufacturers, So they don’t exactly represent plus-sized women.

What do you think about this? I mean Crystal Renn isn’t exactly a fattie is she? But in the model world she would be considered a whale. Yet again the question of what is too skinny is brought up in the fashion world.

source: The Pros & Cons Of V Magazine’s Plus-Size Issue [Jezebel]

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Karl Lagerfeld: Only Fat People Dislike Thin Models

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Fashion Week’s around the world happen twice a year, which means there is always debates as to what is too skinny and acceptable. Well as the title says, Karl Lagerfeld is giving his opinion and he doesn’t want “fat” women on the runway.

Just last week, German magazine Brigitte announced they were banning skinny models from their pages and replacing them with “real women,” Andreas Lebert who is the editor of the magazine said he and his staff were sick of photoshopping underweight models to make them look normal.

“For years we’ve had to use Photoshop to make these girls look fatter. Their thighs and their breasts have been the main problem. I think this is disturbing and perverse. What has it got to do with our normal readers?” Lebert said.

Focus asked Lagerfeld what his opinion on this were and the 71 year old designer, who is from Germany, said those who complain about skinny models are just “fat mummies” who don’t want to be reminded of their weight issues.

“These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly,” he also said that the Fashion world was all to do “with dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women”.

Lagerfeld himself had a major weight loss a couple of years ago after he wanted to fit into clothes that he said were made for young boys and not men his age.

Fellow designer John Ribbe says this debate has become ridiculous, “it’s just as much a clichÃ© as saying that all models take drugs and get drunk at sex orgies, ninety per cent of them are quite normal, properly proportioned girls with less fat and more muscles, who also eat pizzas and burgers.”

What a crock of shit all of this is, remember Heidi Klum was accused of being fat ? This debate isn’t going to be over anytime soon. What are your thoughts?

source: Karl Lagerfeld says only ‘fat mummies’ object to thin models [Guardian]

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