In an interview this week with the U.K.’s Channel 4 News, Lagerfeld was asked about the fashion industry’s influence on women’s body image. There was this exchange:
Reporter: “You think it’ll be O.K. for women to be fat in the future?”
Lagerfeld: “Unfortunately, yes.”
Reporter: “But not O.K. now?”
Lagerfeld: “No.”
Reporter: “You think it’ll be O.K. for women to be fat in the future?”
Lagerfeld: “Unfortunately, yes.”
Reporter: “But not O.K. now?”
Lagerfeld: “No.”
He then called the subject “ridiculous” and said, “ The story with anorexic girls — nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion. People who have that, they have problem with family and things like this. There are less than one percent of anorexic girls, but there are over — in France, I don’t know about England — over 30 percent of girls who are big, big, overweight.”
VIA ABC
