Sigrid Interviewed Karl Lagerfeld for Interview Magazine

This Spring, during Paris Fashion Week, Karl Lagerfeld unleashed another youthquake on the runway-tight, militant, and black, with exaggerated shoulders reminiscent of the designer’s 80s signature indulgences. No, it wasn’t for Chanel, but for his eponymous label, Karl Lagerfeld. Originally founded in 1998 as Lagerfeld Gallery, the brand has served as a playground for Lagerfeld’s wilder fashion instincts. The latest collection was a rock-minimalist take on the not-so-near future, with mod motorcycle helmets-done in conjunction with the upscale French helmet company Les Ateliers Ruby- which came equipped with compartments for iPods. Budding supermodel Sigrid Agren opened the show wearing one such helmet. Earlier in the week, the 18-year-old Martinique native took a few minutes out of her fitting for the show to ask the world’s most famous designer a few questions about life and work. we followed Lagerfeld through his fitting as well as backstage on show day to get a glimse of how Karl Lagerfeld does Karl Lagerfeld.

Karl Lagerfeld: Who has the idea to name you Sigrid?

Sigrid Agren: Actually, my father is Swedish…

Lagerfeld: Do you know that your name comes from a half-goddess in Northern mythology?

Agren: No, I didn’t know that. Okay, my turn to ask you a question: DO you have a favorite piece in the Fall 2009 Lagerfeld collection?

Lagerfeld: This I can only tell you when our show is over, because as long as the show isn’t over, you can never get an impression. But I love the details of the motorbike helmets. It is so difficult for me to say. My opinion can be completely different after a show.

Agren: I love the helmet. How did you get the idea to make that?

Lagerfeld: it looks like the huge hairdos from the 1960s, which everyone thinks are pretty ugly. So the helmet is like a huge amount of hair, made of fur. And it’s for your music, because there’s a holder inset for your iPod and room for earphones, too. The helmet works with the technology that is useful in daily life.

Agren: Very nice. Where does your inspiration come from when you’re working on a collection?

Lagerfeld: A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the
air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out. People today are so used to taking one theme and staying with it all the way. I don’t do that . its about cut, about construction. I wanted shoulder, but a new volume, so I made what I call the Big Shoulder. I’m more interested in working out technical ideas than I am in themes or illustrating a scene or a country or whatever.

Agren: If you could do anything in your life over again, what would it be?

Lagerfeld: I don’t want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven’t done. There’s no “again.” There’s only the future. I hate the past – especially my own past.

Agren: is there anything you haven’t done that you’d like to?

Lagerfeld: Hmm…yes. I have got to stay with what I’m doing now…(hits hand on table) this collection…(hits hand on table) photography…(hits hand on table) books. There are three jobs for one person and that is okay for me.

Agren: What’s your favorite music right now?

Lagerfeld: It depends on the genre, but, for the moment, I like the latest Scissor Sisters CD. I also just got this CD of Yoko Ono and her son, who make very interesting music together.

Agren: Do you have an all-time favorite musician who you’ve loved forever?

Lagerfeld: Yes. Some of the musicians from the ‘60s, because there has been nothing better than them since, you know? What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones… You can remember every line to their songs. But today, how often do you remember any of the lines to songs? I mean, I know Lily Allen’s last album is called IT’s Not Me, It’s YOU. (both laugh) But I don’t know how the songs go.

Agren: Where do you feel most at home?

Lagerfeld: Wherever I am now. Here

Agren: Here? At the fittings?

Lagerfeld: Yes, I don’t have the notion of the feeling “home,” or “Heimat,” as the Germans say. That doesn’t exist for me. I bring myself with me wherever I go, so it’s okay.

Agren: Okay. How do you look when you wake up?

Lagerfeld: That’s why I sleep alone. My hair is curly, and that’s why I have my ponytail. I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie! But im very impeccable and clean before I go to bed. It’s just like right before I’m going out. When I was a child, my mother always told me that you could wake up in the middle of the night and be deathly sick, so you always have to be impeccable. I laugh about it now, but I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.

Agren: What advice would you give me on becoming a supermodel?

Lagerfeld: That’s very difficult. I’m not a girl, but for a supermodel, my advice is that it’s based on… (hits hand on table) no justice. Its not because you want to be a supermodel, or because your mother thinks you’re a hundred times better than Claudia Schiffer. You can be a model like yourself, very elegant and chic, or you can become a kind of advertising PR person, like Heidi Klum. You can do whatever you want, but it isn’t really your choice. You want to know what the real secret is?

Agren: Tell me.

Lagerfeld: Its not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. That’s why the girls who were famous in the ‘90s can still work for advertising. People know their faces. The little blonde Russian, Sasha (Pivovarava), has a face people can remember instantly, but for other models today, people think, Is she this one or that one? It’s very difficult, but, you see, in fact there is no advice, because all circumstances are very different. It depends on what you are ready to give, the kind of life you bring, what may be exciting or disappointing… You can’t accuse anyone of not doing enough to help you, because, besides yourself, there’s nothing anyone can do. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new. But it’s the most… (hits hand on table) unjust… (hits hand on table) thing in the world.

Agren: Thank you so much, Karl.

Lagerfeld: Well, it’s true, isn’t it?

April 2009 Russian Vogue Cover

April 2009 Russian Cover features A Supermodel and a Super Musician: Carmen Kass and Lenny Kravitz.

Fall/Winter 2009 CAMPAIGN ALERT!!! Who'll be on Which Brand?!

Ralph Lauren Fall/Winter 2009: Tao Okamoto (Supreme)


GIVENCHY FALL/WINTER 2009: Adriana LIMA


Gucci Fall/Winter 2009: Jacquetta Wheeler, YES (THE) Jacquetta Wheeler, alongside Raquel Zimmermann (DNA), Natasha Poly (WOMAN) and Freja Beha Erichsen (IMG)


Chanel Fall/Winter 2009: Heidi Mount (IMG) and Freja Beha Erichsen (IMG)


Louis Vuitton F/W 09: Madonna (Rumored/most likely)


Calvin Klein Fall/Winter 2009: Monika/Jac (IMG)


Marc Jacobs Fall/Winter 2009: Anne Hathaway (GooD-Bye Victoria Beckham)


Alberta Ferretti Fall/Winter 2009: Madisyn Ritland (Burberry Girl)


Yves Saint Laurent Fall/Winter 2009: Christy Turlington


Burberry: Emma Watson


That's all I got so far. Let the AD war, BEGIN!!!

Black Models ROCK!!!!

1) Liya (IMG) and Jourdan (WOMAN) just got the covers of American Vogue and made history for using the woman of color back to back on the cover. Mrs. Obama was on the March cover, Beyonce was on April and now Liya and Jourdan on the May covers!!

2) And now Ms. Alrenis Sosa is on her first Vogue cover. And its German Vogue. She is the first BLACK model in 5 years to appear on the cover. The last model was Naomi and the year was 2004! Congrats ALRENIS!!!

3) Last but on least, American sweethearts Chanel Iman (FORD) and Sessilee Lopez (MAJOR) are stirring up the buzz on twiiter.

Chanel Posted: "IN London Shooting a MAJOR SURPRISE COVER!!!!Its top secret can't give it away!!"

Sissilee Posted: "Leaving London now!!! My God when you guys see the photos from this shoot you will die, all i can say is ITS A MAJOR MOMENT IN FASHION!!!!!"

All I got to say is I can't wait to see what they are talking about!!!!!!!! I hope its a cover of VOGUE UK or VOGUE Paris or anything and I hope they both are on the cover toegther!!!!!!

BLACK MODELS ARE BACK!!!!!!!!!!!

HERE THEY ARE: US VOGUE MAY 2009: SUPERMODELS

LOVE THE COVER!!!!! From left to right, the models are: Liya Kebede (IMG), Natalia Vodianova (DNA), Anna Jagodzinska, Isabeli Fontana (WOMAN), Lara Stone (IMG), Jourdan Dunn (WOMAN), Raquel Zimmermann (DNA), Caroline Trentini (IMG), and Natasha Poly (WOMAN).

Natasha Poly for W Magazine Korea April 2009

Natasha Poly (Woman) for the cover and editorial for W Magazine Korea. Can't wait to see her in next month's US Vogue Cover!!!!!

I hope its a WIG...........

....because I don't like if if its permanent!! Daul Kim (Elite) is now a BLOND! Do you like it???

Daria Werbowy for British Vogue May 2009

Daria Werbowy (IMG) looks every bit of of supermodel on the cover! And Im glad the "G" is not on her face!! I hate when they do that to covergirls.

Jourdan Dunn on Life as a Top Model

She may be taking the fashion world by storm, and being invited to the most glamorous parties, but 18-year-old model is taking it all in stride.

What the British teenager most looks forward to after a day’s catwalk shows is home cooking, lounging in front of the television, and her bed.

Dunn, from West London, was shopping for sunglasses when she was spotted last year by a scout for Storm, the agency that famously discovered Kate Moss.

Hailed as a supermodel-in-the making, she is one of a handful of internationally successful black models and has been taken under the wing of supermodel Naomi Campbell.

“The first time I met Naomi was backstage at a show and she said ‘Oh Jourdan… we definitely have to lunch some time’, Dunn told Reuters in an interview, admitting that she still gets star struck. “I was just smiling like a complete idiot.”

She said London Fashion Week is her favourite, as she gets to stay at home, eat home-cooked food and watch the British soap opera “East Enders”.

“I hate staying in models’ apartments… Most of (the models) are used to their mums running around after them and looking after them, so the house is a complete mess. I’m a clean person so it’s hard to cope with other people’s dirty habits. In fact, they’re so dirty, it attracts rodents,” Dunn said, adding that she discovered a mouse in the New York flat she shared with eight other models.

Although still a teenager, Dunn doesn’t do modeling just for fun — she is a career woman with a gruelling schedule.
With three five a.m. starts during London Fashion Week, she squeezed this interview in between her last catwalk show in London and her flight to Milan for the next round of shows.

Landing at eight p.m., she said she may even have a casting upon arrival. With New York, London, Milan and Paris fashion weeks following one after another, it's always a non-stop round of castings, auditions and catwalk shows. After that whirlwind comes to an end, she does shoots for magazines and campaigns and models in one-off shows.

Dunn laughed at the idea that models may be ferried by taxi from one venue to another during fashion week - she said that instead they hop on the underground and hope navigation skills won’t fail them.

With fashion shows more often than not running late, it is a mad rush to get the models’ hair and makeup styled before the show.

“It’s crazy backstage, with hair and makeup, especially because my hair is different than most other models - sometimes it’s really difficult for them to do it,” she said.

“They are always putting different products on your hair… and it is always damaged at the end of the season,” said Dunn, who relies on her hairstylist cousin rather than expensive beauty salons to treat her dark brown mane.

In fact, she has changed few lifestyle habits since starting modeling; she still shops on the high street, wears trainers rather than high heels, and eats junk food.

“I am one of those lucky people who can eat anything and not put on weight,” Dunn said, steering clear of the size zero debate about ultra skinny models that has recently overshadowed the fashion industry.

Discussing the challenges posed by modeling, Dunn bemoaned the tiny shoes that have sometimes brought tears to her eyes, and laughed about the skimpy clothes.

“Maybe a few times my boobs have popped out of an outfit — but that happens.”

She also commented on the omnipresence of cameramen and photographers, who rush backstage before the show to witness the preparations, and afterward to interview the designer while the models are getting changed.

“You will be getting your hair done, feeling really tired, closing your eyes — and then there is the flash and two photographers are in your face.”

On the plus side, the models often come away from shows with freebies such as designer bags, fragrances, clothes and even shoes.

“When I was in New York I had to buy an extra suitcase for freebies,” said Dunn, giggling.

Although Dunn may be living in the limelight at the moment, she doesn’t let success go to her head, and says she still hangs out with the same friends back home rather than other models.

As for the glamorous after-parties, they are all full of old people, aren’t they?

“I’m not really into after parties, I am only 18 and I feel like I’ll be with a bunch of people not my age.”

Thanks to TFS.

Reporting from Paris.....

Sorry guys I've not been posting....that's because I'm in city of lights and there is soo much do to and no time to sit down..