This year’s Met Gala will honor Karl Lagerfeld, the highly celebrated and controversial fashion designer who was regarded as fatphobic. He also spoke against movements such as #MeToo.
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The choice of Lagerfeld for fashion's biggest night is not without critics, though gala visionary and close friend Anna Wintour is, clearly, not among them. An emailed request for her comment on this side of Lagerfeld went unreturned.and elite from fashion, tech, politics, music, social media, film, TV and sports ascend the Met's Grand Staircase for the gala, Jameela Jamil won't be there.
Called the"living soul of fashion" by Wintour, Lagerfeld and his gifts were outsized. So were his words. To German news magazine Focus in 2009, Lagerfeld declared of plus-size models:"No one wants to see curvy women." According to the book"The World According to Karl," a collection of Lagerfeld's own words, he once said:"I think that for both women and men, fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.""I shouldn't say this, but physically he was quite repulsive," Lagerfeld told Vice of Warhol in 2010.
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