Hereby the great article from Mister Karl from www.vogue.co.uk
KARL LAGERFELD's mother was not a woman to mince her words - and she had little interest in her son's work atChanel.
"My mother used to say to me: 'You look like me, but not as good,'" he said. "She never saw a show of my work because, she said, 'I do not want to go see people my son works for.' And at the end of her life, when she was 70, she decided that she would not wear skirts any more. 'Long skirts make me old and the short skirts,' this was the Sixties, 'they're for the young girls.' So she couldn't care less about what I was making. She loved Sonia Rykiel."
Talking to Jessica Chastain at a fundraising event in New York, the Chanel designer also opened up on his views about red-carpet dressing ("A little too much sometimes - especially when you see all those mermaids and fishtail gowns going in to see movies about poor girls in Eastern Europe"), magazine retouching ("Everyone looks like they stepped out of a funeral parlour"), being lauded as the fashion equivalent of Oscar Wilde ("I hope I end up better"), as well as his childhood.
"I hated when people came up to me and said 'How was school?' and things like that. I hated to be treated as a child," he recalled. "I thought it was the worst situation. I never spoke to people like that. I turned my back to them and never spoke to them again. I wanted to be grown-up."
He also relayed his first encounter with his beloved pampered pet, Choupette, who was originally loaned to him by model and friend Baptiste Giabiconi while he was on holiday. Lagerfeld promptly fell in love with the cat and refused to give her back.
"Baptiste got another one," said Lagerfeld. "But she is not as good as Choupette. It is always difficult to analyse influence, but perhaps she helped me become a nicer person - there's something very touching about her. And she is spoiled beyond."
Michael kors is launching his own beauty line in collaboration with Estee Lauder. Products will be only available at his own stores and at Macy's. Sporty, sexy and glam are the idea behind the make up . Every line has a parfum, 2 colors in nailpolish, 2 colors in lipstick and gloss and he will also launch a line for fake tan products. Basics as a mascara will not be in his line.
"we always knew we wanted to have a fragrance for this brand, because it's very lifestyle. we felt that between the brand elizabeth and james and sephora that we were really speaking together directly to our customer. we felt that was a really good place to start exploring the world of fragrance and beauty."
Nirvana White and Nirvana black will be launched as part of the brand Elizabeth and James.
Going back to work is probably one of the most doubble things I've done lately.. Honestly I'm not made to sit all day long at a desk...my energy level is too high, I have a problem eating in large groups (yes we still do have that problem), working out at the evenings (so hard), staying off my phone...that one is so fucking hard. I'm not used to have "rules", my previous jobs didn't have that amount of rules. I'm used to eating whenever I want, most of the time I could eat alone, I'm used of using my phone all day, tweeting, facebook, checking my mails...
I'm going to adapt so hard, a plus is the amount of money I make and that I can keep my piercing. Yesterday evening first thing I did when coming home was work out..I've already went running this morning, tomorrow I have to go back to work. In time I will adapt better, but for now, I'll be so happy when it's weekend!
"I've tried them on everyone! They treat the hair as they work and never leave it looking too done. The most important thing in this industry is to think of the woman sitting before you - most hairstylists want to put their stamp on a person, especially a celebrity like Victoria, but it's really about considering that woman," he told us. "I think it's really cheap to look at someone's hair and say: 'This is wrong, change this'. It's bad to beauty bully people. The Color Wow products are all about liberation and individuality rather than changing a person."
"I'd always been such a huge fan of Victoria, but when I met her she was this incredibly demure, soft, sweet, beautiful woman - so engaging and so kind. It was instant from there. When she and her family moved to the US her office called for me to come and style her hair, so we've been working together ever since," he said. "I have always taught my clients how to style their own hair, how to air dry it and work with their natural texture - which is what these products are so good at. Victoria can tong her own hair amazingly and she often does - people will call my office saying: 'What did you do with her hair last night?' I say: 'Where was she? I'm not there!' - and the reason is that she's done it herself."
