Karl Lagerfeld's Controversial Comments

Late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, who was honored at this year's Met Gala, has long been criticized for making fatphobic and misogynistic comments ...
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[@richardmangelmann4975]

As a German I can say he’s just very honest. I know a lot of people that would speak like he does

[@selmahare]

I'm Portuguese and I recognize his honesty as well, it's called integrity and it has no flag or country.

[@Victori.A1]

Keep living in denial, it's funny

[@hwtdhqdtyqu]

To say there are no anorexic girls in Fashion is lying to yourself XD

[@tamikaleeryker]

He's saying follow fashion. He said it's ok to be a little round, and he likes the 30-year-old model. I love KL and Chopette. Leave him alone. He's an icon.

[@roningarcia5771]

This is normal behavior for a Latino. He is direct and honest.

[@DeLonteADeWalt]

He’s not saying anything wrong…

[@thierrybrouland-c3v]

fatphobic

[@ashuRKO]

We are living in a society where speaking the truth makes you a controversial person...

[@NujhatTabassum]

He was so professional and strict, just as high fashion should be

[@lucreziamorganti9115]

He just said the whole truth!! I don’t understand why this would have to be considered controversial, he never promoted anorexia but healthy skinny vs fat from junk food that kills far more extensively and it’s dangerously considered as normal behaviour. It’s incredible how people refuse to see reality just because it’s inconvenient for them. 🤷‍♀️

[@chilichill4298]

Exactly! People are overlooking his point

[@MinecraftKid120]

Skinny also just looks better. Especially in fashion. Fat women are just not aesthetically appealing

[@aMajesticMess]

Everyone has just become so sensitive. Lord have mercy.

[@Sunflower-mp2yi]

Fatphobia ≠ spreading awareness about health and problems that are coming with being overweight…

[@lokipanadora2331]

Ikr, how is pointing out the harms of being overweight is fatophobic whoever thinks that needs to be slapped to reality

[@rm3860]

Yes, but he also celebrated the other end of unhealthiness (being very underweight) by only using size 0 models. Being too skinny and the pressures that come with these standards also bring on health problems

[@UrrmmWut...]

I can only speak from my experience. up until i turned 30 & had to start taking a new medication was 110 lbs 5 ft 6. I ate whatever i wanted and was snacking constantly because my metabolism was so high. When i got on this medication my appetite went away so i wasn't eating anything more than maybe 2 popcicles a day i eventually made myself eat healthy meals but that was after i had gained all the weight. I gained 10 lbs every 2 wks until i got to 180lbs & i can tell you once i gained weight i could not do so many things i could when i was thin I couldn't squat & jump back up, i couldn't run for only a few seconds, even walking around a store getting groceries wore me out! My knees hurt so bad carrying that weight around & So many more things but my point is when i became overweight i felt like crap all the time vs when im my natural weight. So in my own opinion you ABSOLUTELY have more health problems than when you’re thin.

[@misskelly9184]

Well let talk about health and hemorrhoids from penetration

[@applejuice7648]

Sometimes the hard truth hurts but needs to be said. Americans are very used to being coddled

[@j-groovy5339]

and adele lost weight, being overweight is not good for anybody.

[@ZosiaSamosiaOo]

She was *a little round

[@j-groovy5339]

I guess he was trying to be polite when we all know she was more than *a little round*.🤷

[@ZosiaSamosiaOo]

@@j-groovy5339 😃

[@RosetteAckesson]

And being too skinny isn't either so

[@j-groovy5339]

@@RosetteAckesson so true, everything in excess is not good.

[@NKatz]

I'm a woman and nothing he said was wrong. It was all right. I'm so confused. If this was the best evidence they got then they're stretching.

[@JessBachmeier]

So eating disorders only exist in France now?

[@gloriahota]

Same , I don't find anything he said offensive especially in this video.

[@Redstripe921]

Of course they r stretching it, the world has gone insane.

[@ztc1613]

I thought he was going to say offensive comments but all he said is it is unhealthy to be overweight. People love to reach

[@JessBachmeier]

So eating disorders only exist in France now? And only 1% of women have them? Opinions may be agreeable but it doesn't mean that they're actually factual.

[@august1763]

Yeah, I'm not seeing why facts are so controversial these days🤷🏻‍♀

[@MsBettyRubble]

I agree. I didn't hear anything to get upset about.

[@nightlegend9226]

He’s Speaking Facts not Hate

[@JessBachmeier]

So eating disorders only exist in France now? and only 1 percent of women have them? Opinions may be agreeable, doesn't mean that they're actually factual though.

[@catam9308]

Fashion has mostly been dominated by gay men. They have their own ideas about beauty. Hence why most straight men do not find super models bodies attractive or do they much care for most high fashion styles. It's up to the individual to decide if they want to follow the standard of high fashion. It's completely a choice. I don't understand why people get butt hurt an older gay man has a very specific ideal of what he thinks is beauty in a woman. Gay men are not sexually attracted to women, so they obviously won't find the curves of a woman sensual. They will have an idealistic idea of how they will dress and look because they haven't and won't spend their life with a woman in her highs and low. Amongst other things. So I wouldn't as a woman, be so inclined to be so bothered by what they set as a standard in the high fashion world, unless of course you want to be involved in it or like it yourself. Also Karl, to be fair was fat once. He's speaking from his own experience over being over weight and he's making valid points.

[@Ali-lm7uw]

Actually a lot of straight men including me are attracted to thin women

[@Ali-lm7uw]

@@catam9308 curves n all are exaggerated in the media. Guys generally actually like leaner girls, if not skinny. Not just my preference, but also most of my friends have the hots for thin girls

[@erh_mie]

​@@Ali-lm7uw absolutely right💯

[@BABXY123]

you cant generalize that. not all men are the same and not all straight men are attracted to the same body type

[@akilahbrooklyn8236]

@@BABXY123 Although you're partially correct, "not all men are attracted to the same body type", Nevertheless... Most plus-sized women are not attracted to the 'chubby chasers', either. The Plus sized women want the 'Idris Elbas' and the 'Brad Pitts' of the world. They need these types of men to desire "Plus Sized Women' instead. Hence, why we have a Fat Acceptance Movement to begin with. If you were only concerned with what the "Chubby Chasers" thought, then you wouldn't care what the rest of the men preferred.

[@griseldadominguez8734]

What is so wrong with saying he doesn't design for every woman? Then he would be like walmart of fashion, it would loose the aesthetics and uniqueness of a designer, that's why he says if a woman identifies with his design or not they can buy it or not

[@petergriffin6260]

His intelligence is miles beyond the interviewer's.

[@ToweRsViVe]

FACTS NOT HATE. KARL 2024!

[@JessBachmeier]

So eating disorders only exist in France now? And only 1% of women have them? Opinions may be agreeable but it doesn't mean that they're actually factual.

[@valley-girl]

CONTROVERSIAL? He's saying what doctors and psychologists would say 😂 However, he is not acknowledging that the completely flat stomach and abs culture is also bad. You see, abs are just for aesthetic...it doesn't make you stronger and it immediately goes away unless you obsessively control your carbs which isn't good for both mental and physical health

[@Prime6165]

Beauty is subjective. You don’t have to subscribe to his standards. I don’t understand why people can’t just agree to disagree. It’s his lost if he did not want to have an inclusive line of clothes.

[@JessBachmeier]

His job is to make fashion, not opinions

[@selmahare]

I find most of what he did actually very wearable by most body types, just not by overweight people. But there are brands that do have overweight collections now, so I’d suggest the people who prettily criticise him look into those instead, I can assure them that doing so would be a lot more productive to them. As for it being in any way “his loss” the numbers say very differently, because most people in the world are not overweight, thank god _cause it’s a health problem, in case people haven’t heard! He was the best paid and most successful designer of all times, so I really can’t see how a few overweight people (mainly Americans) not buying his clothes constituted any issue to him, it so much didn’t that he stuck to his guns until he died. Making clothes for overweight women was not his calling, his thing, and quite frankly it wouldn’t be mine either. It was simply not his vocation, not what he liked to do. How can something as personal as personal taste, calling and vocation be so offensive to some is something that I will never get. It wildly defies all common sense and logic! It’s like we have been living in a totally mad, upside down world in recent years. You start by making exactly that point and then become senselessly back handed and illogical. Overweight people are constantly warned by doctors to lose the weight, because of the several serious health implications that being overweight brings; for once and for all, being overweight is not a body type, no one is born overweight; it’s a health hazard. It’s not the duty of any designer to cater to that and in doing so feed the madness. But having said that, because of greed again there are a few now who do, so if you are overweight go buy from those instead and leave people like Lagerfeld alone to live their vocation in their own terms, at will. With all the serious health implications that being overweight has, if you are overweight how is your priority not to lose weight, but to vociferate at Karl Lagerfeld because he doesn’t make dresses for you?! 😵‍💫🥴 I can’t, I just can’t with the insane levels of stupidity and just sheer madness.

[@ninasakhi2059]

He was fat he is right its not healthy

[@iclandiccubicle2798]

I love him nothing wrong with what’s he saying at all, he reminds me of my aunt she is a very blunt and honest hard working woman. This brings me comfort somehow I wish people could still be this honest today

[@marquileonardo]

Controversial? I support him. He told the truth!

[@lamarmohsen9582]

He's so right. Stop encouraging us to be fat it's not nice to look fat and not healthy either!

[@davidlynch9049]

Models are thin because they are basically clothes hangars for the clothes they are modeling. The idea is for buyers to concentrate on the clothes and not on the model.

[@selmahare]

Has he lied about anything? He's just brutally honest in a world where most people are either cowardly, stupid or fake. Why are facts deemed controversial now? Why is the truth deemed controversial? How is it fat phobia to point out the universal, commonly known fact that being overweight is unhealthy?! Honestly people need to leave Lagerfeld alone and get over their stupidity already.

[@sommeresposito7728]

I like ge speaks his minds and it’s true

[@What-v7k]

I don’t see a problem here

[@bloodcurdling3581]

Some people are just naturally skinny and they are offended when you think that they don't eat. They do. Stop judging them

[@dinahassan4320]

He said just the truth

[@danh5637]

Saying you name is just going to get you cancelled in future generations. He’s German so speaks directly, and he’s a gay man who can make observations that maybe seen as catty or cutting. But above all he was a genius.

[@gisph1353]

Nobody designs for every woman 👏👏👏

[@wendizzzelr4883]

He’s not wrong what’s the problem 😊

[@tahianusrat9660]

I agree with most of the things he is saying

[@enpi-me]

Controversial ? He just speak facts about food and health : fat people have various problems related to their condition, such as diabete or strokes...

[@jaystone5036]

What's controversial?...I heard nothing of the sort

[@littleperiwinkle8742]

so what is controversial here?

[@tomijaya4863]

He SPEAK the TRUTH.. somebody just dont like the truth… thats brutally honest what he saying. ❤

[@maryrose8016]

I didn’t find anything offensive in these clips

[@sev1208]

Well are we just going to make controversy over nothing now?

[@TaleiAK]

Language barrier and the need to be politically correct is why this video content was deemed controversial.

[@DP-pj7qn]

I think the only ppl that would be insulted are anorexic or obese...he said nothing wrong

[@ImotekhtheStormlord-tx2it]

he was the most honest dude in the industry. he speaks truths especially in 2023. fat acceptance is destroying society. i bet he was ready to break "fashion rules" if the girl had charm and magic

[@kimberlyyoung6516]

Me either and I'm short and fat. Everyone is not going to look good in Chanel Valentino or Oscar Marc nor afford it, fashion is an illusion and escape or dream. People are just so sensitive and take everything literally out of context. Hell if you like it and can afford it buy it and be quiet about it if and vice versa. Nothing this old gay man said was controversial.its all about the Benjamin's because if i could afford to buy any of those beautiful over priced fashions I would.

[@MsBettyRubble]

Totally agree. I'm also small, under 5 feet and quite round. I couldn't find anything he said offensive. Some ppl are just looking for a fight.

[@TASconfidential]

Karl didn’t care that people can’t handle truth.

[@irishdanceislife]

He is saying that being obese isn’t healthy. How is that controversial?

[@MetalMaiden39]

Nothing controversial. He spoke the truth.

[@adambogdaowicz2266]

I love him so much.

[@louielouie684]

He's right. Fashion hurts sometimes.

[@shadowrebels1623]

L O L lagerfeld himself was never skinny he was obsessed being homosexual he didn’t understand the scientific definition of healthiness he just gave his idea of healthy 😂

[@woobee8554]

He spoke from a professional perspective very honestly, in which a quality that is not very much understood by most people nowadays. The media's questions are from viewers' perspectives. good questions are being anwered well. Karl has a clear mind. 👌 😊

[@Allthingsasian]

Everyone here saying he was right smh. He once said that if women don’t want to risk getting raped they should all work in a nunnery. Otherwise we have to deal with it. Because clearly women have to be the only ones to take action to stop getting raped, it’s not like men are the ones that actually do the raping… 🤦‍♀️

[@max_sch4462]

Source, please?

[@lokipanadora2331]

Where did he say that??

[@lokipanadora2331]

Since you didn't state your sources, I assume you're just a fat girl who got hurt by what he said, and who were shocked to see the comments agreeing with him cause he simply spoke facts

[@hey_you.]

OMG😵‍💫💀

[@leosunaquamoon]

It's about adjusting the clothes, why are y'all acting like it's being raped? People nowadays just jump to conclusions. Saying this as someone who actually have their genital molested as a child not at the 'literally a child' age that the white people seem to infantalized themselves about. Yes, there were actual sexual assault cases happening in the industry and I'm glad it's called out because people deserve a safe work environment. But privileged White people nowadays to separate what is actually sexual assault and rape so not to trivialized what real victims go through because there are still lots women of color suffer real abuses but the media won’t pay attention to them since all the white girls hog all the attention & resources to their smallest 'problems'. The MeToo movement was started by black women then it was gentrified by the privileged white women playing victim to everything. This doesn’t just pertain to sexual assaults, it's also to missing people

[@flyboymcgee8059]

I like how saying that obesity is bad for your health is somehow, controversial, rather than truthful. The majority of obesity in this country carries with it a plethora of additional health issues like pre-hypertension, pre-diabetic, diabetes, type two, joint, inflammation, vascular and circulatory issues, and the list goes on. Or, we could keep entertaining this illusion, that somehow just saying something is fine, makes it fine.

[@StevenNigro421]

*K109 THE STUDIO*

[@auryflam79]

Nothing is shocking here. He was just explaining in a later interview that fashion was using thin girls on runways cause women are more likely to buy a dress on a thin girl than if seen on an heavier girl. Same things rules for the guys I guess, most men on runways have abs and very low body fat.

[@teakiebella]

Yeah I saw nothing controversial about his statement, and I’m a female who is on the “thicker” side. He spoke the truth and some people were insulted by his remarks.

[@Rotyoto]

This guy sounds like the guy you see on metro stations who thinks he is a big fashion designer.

[@ImotekhtheStormlord-tx2it]

he achieved more than any single gucci, balenciaga designer will ever achieve without being a sketchy guy. he was no pedo and hje had no connections in mafia. figure

[@RLF1]

Being anorexic can lead to death by starvation. Heart failure and other causes. Being obese can lead to death by cancer, diabetes, heart attack, and stroke. Neither is healthy. Both are mental health disorders and require the right therapy and therapist. Never make fun of and put down humans, it can and does do lasting psyche damage. And can even cause them to commit suicide. Have compassion, ❤, understanding.

[@The_Joker_]

Excess fat is not healthy and not attractive. Fat shaming is another political term used by the food industry. It’s all about money.

[@Rumpelstiltskinsdaughter]

He has the balls to say the truth! I’m overweight and I 100% agree with him!

[@davidcazares2469]

He ain’t say one lie

[@ResilientWon]

Hes 85. He's been part of the 1% since birth. The fashion industry is vain and superficial. Why is the son of a Nazi officer's opinion relevant? He peaked in the 90s. BUT he does make a point that we are overweight and reaching morbidly obese in America. We DO eat far too much crappy fast food and lead a seditary lifestyle Obesity is a health issue. He what he said might come across as rude or disrespectful but it is absolutely true.

[@djmikio]

Lagerfeld is not totally WRONG but wrong in that he exists within our cultural idea of FASHION that dictates that style should be an expression of trends, movements and artistic conceits rather than an expression of our individuality and personal creativity. Our very notion of fashion is wrong and unhealthy for our existance as humans.

[@deonewilliams2924]

Beauty is health and the truth that isn’t told is that many obese people live with all kinds of illnesses like diabetes, depression, fatty liver, gallstones, IBS, SIBO, skin problems, no energy, visceral fat ( the dangerous fat), and many other issues.

[@anonymousr1918]

🗿🗿🗿🗿

[@guiraurkikoa]

Honest and truthful. He himself was overweight and went on a diet to lose weight. We should care more about our health. i know there is a problem with anorexia but being overweight brings out a lot of seriuos health problems and many people don´t say or do much about it. He´s right.

[@omarcarrillo6006]

Based

[@applejuice7648]

He’s telling the truth… and sometimes the truth hurts. 🤷‍♀️🤷 Americans are just way too used to being coddled.

[@watermelonprose5497]

Lol he's just spreading truths

[@JessBachmeier]

So eating disorders only exist in France now? And only 1% of women have them? Opinions may be agreeable but it doesn't mean that they're actually factual.

[@An-lh3ox]

A man who has the courage to talk his mind and be honest about reality of things while still being sufficiently polite 👏👏👏

[@juanchica8626]

I don’t understand the controversy if your fat your unhealthy and shouldn’t be on the cover of a magazine if your to lazy to keep your health you shouldn’t be shown Karl has a point

[@frankmcgonagle6143]

I don't see why any of these statements were / are controversial. Just because Karl's statements were misinterpreted and misquoted by the media doesn't mean he was wrong. He clearly says fashion is an idealistic idea and the reality is totally different.

[@dominionshadow9250]

Thank you Karl for keeping it real. Whole new respect for him❤

[@GeorgiaAndrea]

He’s not wrong with overweight being unhealthy. That’s not fat phobic wth.

[@simplyme9336]

He just knows his job really well Nothing wrong with what he says

[@sofiyahBijoux]

He was spot with the fat commemt

[@abhiudai]

Karl Lagerfeld was an absolute G, RIP king

[@Mimi.J817]

I never heard him say anything controversial in this interview

[@davidpar2]

“Controversial” 😆🤡😆🤡😆🤡😆🤡😆🤡😆🤡😆🤡😆🤡

[@DeathSpellXVI]

He’s just saying the truth here i though he was actually bad 😂

[@LorraDear1]

tWhere was the lie though? What's the contraversy?

[@ACV-1]

Descendant from Nazis wtf is he here for ..

[@5813NL]

Controversial because he said the truth.

[@taurussian4591]

At least he speaks the truth

[@cezartb]

What I see is journalists trying to profit.

[@aishwaryaraju921]

Women should follow fashion 👀 Ummm how about no… every human, man or woman, just wear whatever you’re comfortable in… no point chasing fashion..

[@karensinclair4189]

What would you expect a fashion designer to say? That he designs his creations for women who are clearly overweight? The clothes simply do not look very good on grossly overweight women. This is the truth of it.

[@fortysomethingbadgirls2173]

Nothing controversial here, just honest conversation from a man who was caught off guard with the question. He himself had to lose weight in order to remain with Haute ......

[@Terricola2022]

He is denying the reality in modeling. There are lots of women forced to be hungry and go on a restrict diet so they get sick. Its a fact they exploit anorexic women in that industry. He is very good at straying from the topic and manipulating conversations.

[@juliettepatterson3509]

People should be pushing thinner than heavily over weight but the problem is the very overweight people don’t feel represented on the fashion industry giving them no confidence I don’t believe they belong on the run way but they should have a place in fashion.

[@larissafeliciano1113]

He wasn’t wrong on the last answer

[@jalarconcedeno]

He was a visionary it was on to call fat woman ok in the past now we only donut in the privacy of our home or among our closest friends because nowadays we must adhere to the believe that you are beautiful just the way U are and none of my friends are dating body positive image people yet we don’t have respect for the elderly and we are deemed old at age 40 and up the hypocrisy is real

[@AuntyShaPray]

Articulate candour

[@shashank1833]

I don’t see the controversy.

[@netmail9443]

This is controversial?

[@mikescarlet4261]

wtf he's so true for his statements. especially about he didn't design for every women and the women should identify themselves whether it's fit on them or not

[@liolef7403]

He is telling the TRUTH

[@antvre]

i miss karl lagerfeld..

[@cactusmilo918]

I don’t see any problem or controversy with his statements, I totally agree.

[@1982A]

its like bay max to be a model for new collection of life passion with over weight models.

[@bsinclair6264]

And this is why the fashion world itself is toxic…. It’s men still making extreme molds for women to try to fit into… alot of fashion designers at the top are men and they are trying to set the standard for what is beautiful to them for everybody

[@auryflam79]

women are the ones buying these dresses. When designers are trying to make collections and present them on heavier models they just don't sell as well. Society has a great impact on what we are told to think.

[@bsinclair6264]

@@auryflam79 fashion is encouraging society…… (chicken before the egg..) and women want those items because they re told this is how to reach that standard of beauty… I’m confused on what women buying the dresses has todo with who says they should buy it… I.e. the creators of this and those who have status in the industry…

[@hey_you.]

​@@bsinclair6264 fr

[@akilahbrooklyn8236]

@@bsinclair6264 As a woman, myself... I am in TOTAL agreement with Karl Lagerfeld. Not every profession is for everyone. Hence, the reason for the decline in sales and actual value of the brand for many designers. When I'm shopping, I don't want to see plus-sized women in the catalogue, and clearly, neither do most women. Take the same Karl Lagerfeld dress and put it on a slim AND a plus-sized woman. The 'look' will NEVER be the same. Lets keep it honest here. Kudos to Karl for keeping it honest. RIP!

[@liviaoliveira1973]

rip karl