Anti-condol­ences arise for late fashio­n mogul, who was racist and fatpho­bicChanel’s creative director, Karl Lagerfeld, died at 85 on Tuesday in Paris. Lagerfeld, known for being “the King of Fashion” and a prolific designer who left his mark on the industry, reportedly had another side to him that many overlooked. “In France there are a large percentage of young girls who are overweight and less than one percent are skinny. You’ve got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying thin models are ugly. That is not avant-garde – that is commercial!”In a 2018 interview, Lagerfeld stated that he was “fed up” with the #MeToo movement and that what shocked him the most was “the starlets who have taken 20 years to remember what happened.

Source: The Express Tribune February 23, 2019 09:56 UTC