Profound thought to boost my Friday feeling

Karl who?

Interviews with Karl Lagerfeld are always a treat. His latest, with Vice Magazine, does not disappoint. Firstly, I just love the accompanying portrait of Lagerfeld, in his private library, standing in front of (part of) his legendary book collection. Wow. Secondly, his answers are brilliant. Here are a few choice extracts from the man himself:

[On his omnipresent sunglasses] “They’re my burka… A burka for a man. I’m a little short sighted, and people, when they’re short sighted, they remove their glasses and then they look like cute little dogs who want to be adopted.”

[On being asked to remove his sunglasses by an interviewer] “I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, “It’s impolite; remove your glasses.” I said, “Do I ask you to remove your bra?””

[On charity] “Do it, be charitable, but don’t make a subject of conversation out of it because then you bore the world to death. It’s very unpleasant. But I don’t go out a lot so I’m not so exposed to people.”

[On homosexuality] “When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said—and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded—“It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.” This was a very healthy attitude.”

[On meat-eating] “I don’t like that people butcher animals, but I don’t like them to butcher humans either, which is apparently very popular in the world.”

[On Andy Warhol] “I shouldn’t say this, but physically he was quite repulsive.”

It’s hard to know how much of what La Lagerfeld says is part of a carefully cultivated public image and how much is natural, but either way he really is funny, and clearly is a genius in a number of different ways, not least of all expressing himself. An entirely fashionable guru, some might say.

Ring my bell, Ring my bell

Loving this image from Diesels new campaign. Perhaps not the safest way to take your sweetheart roadtripping but for those lovers who can't bear to be apart, it could be an option...

I have a whole other smart/stupid, head/heart dichotmoy. For those of you lucky enough to witness me on my newly purchased bike, you'll notice I'll be donning a fabulous helmut to protect my head (smart), while taking every opportunity to ring my pink Disney Princess bell (a teenie bit stupid). But oh so very necessary.