The Tale Of A Fairy

After a few recent disasters which we won't mention again, Karl Lagerfeld seems to be back on track and comfortably swimming in the Chanel pond. For the cruise 2012 collection he created a short film, featuring a slew of beautiful people, that will be screened at the Chanel Cruise collection show on May 10th. Lagerfeld described his new project as "a movie about an ill-advised use of money which begins with violence and ends with feeling." If that doesn't make you want to watch it, then maybe the knowledge that Freja Beha appears topless and makes out with Anna Mouglalis will.

You can watch the trailer below. It looks promising! 


And of course I love the opening line: "Does anyone know a girl called Vivian..."

The Karl Lagerfeld x Magnum Saga Continues

I'm not even going to try to take any of this serious. Has the chocolate gotten to his brain?

If the commercials he directed to promote Magnum ice cream weren't bad enough, Uncle Karl has now also created a life sized chocolate sculpture of his imaginary boyfriend Baptiste Giabiconi! Who at Magnum said 'Yes Karl, that sounds like a wonderful idea' to this?! That's what I want to know.


Just look at these pics and watch him touch his chocolate muse in order to get completely freaked out by Karl obsessing over Giabiconi. At least he put some tighty whities on the poor bastard... although the thought of a chocolate johnson does suddenly make me feel rather peckish. 

The world has gone insane...

Karl Lagerfeld x Magnum

Ok, maybe I don't have enough of a sense of humor, but the commercial Karl Lagerfeld directed for Magnum ice cream is total horror. I haven't even gotten over his recent Cocal Cola Light disaster, and now this? Seriously, when you get paid like he does he should come up with something that doesn't look like a high school film project. 


The spot, which is part of a series, features Rachel Bilson as a 5'2" ice cream eating fashion model and as his favorite accessory Baptiste Giabiconi as an annoying photographer. Lagerfeld himself is sparing himself the embarrassment of being seen in front of the lens.

At the commercial's premiere party in NY, Karl's Diet Coke waiter followed him around to keep his other pay check happy. And when asked why he even teamed up with Magnum even though he admits he doesn't eat sugar he said: “I like advertising. I love my job in fashion. I love my job as a photographer, but making films was something I hadn’t done. If I was isolated in one job, I would get bored." Besides, he adds: “I would eat ice cream if I could. I made advertisements for Dom Perignon Champagne, and I don’t drink alcohol. After all, I’m a dress designer and I don’t wear dresses." Well, sounds like a crock of shit to me, Karl. At least admit that you're in it for the money.

Karl Lagerfeld x Coca Cola Light x Dislike

After Patricia Field, Manolo Blahnik and Matthew Williamson, Chanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld has now also collaborated with Coca-Cola and 'designed' a limited edition aluminum Coca Cola Light bottle. 


As much as I want to like all things Lagerfeld, I just can't get excited about him creating a package design for something as cheap and tasteless as Coca Cola Light. Yes, Coca Cola is an iconic brand, but since they changed the recipe to something beyond recognition from its delicious original product I just can't think about anything but that disgusting high fructose corn syrup taste for the normal Coke, and the taste of chemicals for the light version.


Anyway, for those of you that might be interested (I'm thinking about my friend Merle, who basically lives off Coca Cola Light): the limited edition bottles will be up for grabs as of April 28th at Colette (of course).


The ad campaign, which Lagerfeld shot himself, features models Coco Rocha and Baptiste Giabiconi. The image shows Rocha coyly sipping the fizzy drink from Lagerfeld's favorite pimp cup Lalique glass, while Giabiconi looks like he's got the actual bottle up his arse. And even though Rocha looks cute in Karl's gorgeous designs, her hair looks like a burnt down village. Couldn't they have fixed that? All in all the whole thing looks kind of cheap and targeted at teenagers, who will definitely have to save up in order to shell out $5 for a bottle and $80 for the box set which holds a bottle and a bottle opener.


One last fun fact about Lagerfeld and his love for Diet Coke: he actually has a butler for the stuff (see below)!


My verdict on this whole collab: C'mon Karl, stick with Chanel... it's what you do best!