Vice has interview with
Karl Lagerfeld talking with
Bruce LaBruce that I saw excerpted on NYMag.com. The excerpt contained a lot of the great quotes from the interview so I checked it out on Viceland.com. And after reading it, you'd swear that Lagerfeld is dead serious about the words that come from his mouth but you can't be too sure. Some of it, you'll wonder, "where did this guy come from," or "yeah okay," or like me I was laughing at some of it. For 7 pages it was very entertaining. There's comedic timing to his words. He talks a lot about avoiding boredom...in life, in work, in art etc. Here's some of the 7 page interview below.
Vice in bold.
I hate it when photographers are like, “Can we have one with your glasses off?” Why? You can see me just fine.
I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, “It’s impolite; remove your glasses.” I said, “Do I ask you to remove your bra?”
You have to be careful what you ask for. Something that you do, which I also try to do in my art, is to treat all aspects of creativity equally. Fashion, photography, books, whatever—it all comes from the same place.
Yes, exactly. Everything comes from the same head. The three things I like best in life are fashion, photography, and books. There are a lot of other things I may like but that I’m not gifted for. I’m not gifted for music. I’m not gifted for singing. I don’t like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.
Let's talk about sex. I don’t know if you read it, but there was recently this interesting article about Andy Warhol in the New Yorker by Louis Menand.
Yes, I liked that article.
It was good. It talked about Warhol’s sex life. It was kind of shocking to me that they said he was really good in bed in the early 60s.
No one should remember that.
What did you do with the girls?
I had to kiss Patti D’Arbanville.
That’s it?
No, I did lots of other things.
What’s your relationship to communism?
If you look at history, you see how many victims they had. The German Nazis, who were the worst thing in the world, are poor beginners next to the communists, who killed more than 30 million people.
You’re talking about the Soviets.
Yes, the Soviets and other countries you don’t mention because they’re still around. North Korea and things like that. So what do you want me to think about it?
Communism has been in vogue in France at various times, often among intellectuals.
In France, after the war, communism became a kind of snobbishness of intellectual wealthy people who were not overly wealthy.
We call them Champagne Socialists.
No, this comes later. What I’m talking about is what the French call gauche caviar. It’s softer.
It was something like a trend?
Yes, it was a trend. I’m very sorry, but none of their lives worked like their talk. There was only one philosopher like that before the war—Simone Weil. She was the daughter of a rich banker and she gave all her money away and lived like the poor communists she was defending. She died as a result, because she got tuberculosis from living in poor conditions. This I admire.
She was kind of a martyr.
Yes. Whereas bourgeois people having lunch and drinking hard and “changing the world”…
It’s hypocrisy.
Yes. I’m very sorry. It doesn’t work with me. You have to live the life.
If you’re going to talk the talk, you’ve got to walk the walk.
Give your money away and live the life that you are fighting for. That’s the way it should be. I hate rich people when they try to be communists or socialists. I think it’s obscene. -- [ SOURCE ]
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