Karl in the New Yorker!
April 1st, 2007 by KarlHonestly, ja, who else deserves 12 obsequious pages in the New Yorker? Derek Jeter? Ha! It is to laugh.
Look how I am adored!
Over the next three hours, the model tried on a series of garments that Lagerfeld had spent the previous six weeks conceiving: embroidered tweed skirt suits, tulle dresses festooned with camellias, and skintight flannel-Lycra pants. Each garment provoked swooning cries from his retinue:
“Oooo, la, Karl!”
“Trés jolie!”
“Superbe!”
Lagerfeld accepted the praise with a shrug. “I do my job like I breathe,” he said, in his customary manner” rapid, declamatory speech made more emphatic by a heavy German accent. “So if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble!”
And I can always breathe, Meine Lieblings.
Here is a photograph which accompanied the article!
I am the supreme man of action, and this photo catches my essence well, no?