Lagerfeld: 'No one wants to look at fat women'
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German designer Karl Lagerfeld has waded into the debate on too-thin models, telling a German publication that no one wants to look at chubby women on the runway.
His comments come a week after popular German women's magazine Brigitte announced it would no longer use professional models for its photo shoots.
"Fat mummies sit there in front of the television with their chip packets and say skinny models are ugly," Lagerfeld told Focus magazine in an interview published yesterday.
The world of beautiful clothes was ultimately about "dreams and illusions", he added, and no one really wanted to see overweight women.
Andreas Lebert, Brigitte's editor-in-chief, told the Guardian last week that the magazine would stop using professional models next year because he was "fed up" with having to retouch photos of underweight models to make them appear fatter.
The magazine would instead use images of "real life" women, who Lebert hoped would come from all walks of life.
"We're looking for women who have their own identity, whether it be the 18-year-old A-level student, the company chairwoman, the musician, or the footballer," he said.
Lagerfeld is not the only person to have spoken out in defence of the modelling industry.
German designer John Ribbe told Focus the controversy over stick-thin models on catwalks and in fashion magazines was nothing but hysteria.
"Ninety per cent [of the models] are totally normal, well-proportioned girls - with less fat and more muscles, who also eat pizza and burgers," he said.
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Way to go though. Engourage people to take responsibility by calling them repulsive fat pigs. *shakes head*
It's funny, all the fat people I see are often carrying crap food and no exercise. It's about lifestyle and our British lifestyle that sees so much alcohol consumption (and sugary drinks such as alcopops) doesn't help those lazy people who do no exercise.
Get to the gym. Get on a bike. Get your heart rate working in the cardio zone 3 or 4 times a week. Get some muscle and control your food intake as well as type. Calories in must be less than calories out. It really is that easy.
I'm sick of hearing excuses of fat people and in the end, they are going to cost me plenty in health care costs whilst I pay for a gym membership and will likely not call upon the NHS as much as the fat.
You're not thin through your iron will, you're just kidding yourself that you're superior. In fact, you're simply lucky to have never fallen into a fat/obese trap that is a complete bastard to get out of. Maintaining a weight is fairly easy. Gaining weight is easy for some. Losing weight is very difficult for most. Not in terms of calories in, calories out. Not logically. I mean in terms of defying the signals one's body is sending. The body is saying 'eat' - especially if you're exercising too.
BTW exercise for weight loss (burning calories) doesn't really work. Exercising for fitness, to build muscle and raise metabolism is a good thing. 4 hours of the kind of exercise a obese person is capable of burns less than a pound. For the obese, it's better to disassociate the two otherwise exercise becomes a punishment rather than a pleasure.
I'm not too sure about how true that really is, there's plenty of specialist websites out there that cater for people that ACTUALLY like overweight women.
(A shame he is so enamoured of "thin" as his "Amanda" dress is quite flattering for the more mature woman, and reasonably priced at £150 for a designer dress).
It's definition of "Medium" is size 12 and size 16 is "large". Now the average woman's dress size in the UK has grown from 12 in 1990s to 14 in 2000 (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/t
Given scientists have shown that most men who like women prefer a size 14 (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsto