"We have no budget, we do what we want and throwing money out the window brings money back in through the front door. The bottom line is that I don't deal with the bottom line. The luxury in my life is I never have to think about it."
Karl Lagerfeld talking to the New York Times about the impact the recession will have on Chanel.
"I see it like a cleaning up - it was too rotten anyway - so it had to be cleaned up...I see it like a healthy thing - horrible but healthy, like some miracle treatment of the world."
- Count Von Lagerfeld's views on the recession, to The BBC. Ok then.
The supermodel theme continues with Karl Lagerfeld's next handbag campaign for Chanel.
The designer has plucked Jerry Hall to be the face of the campaign, which has been inspired by Colette'sChéri. The famous novel tells the story of a young man who falls for a woman twice his age.
He has also recruited Baptiste Giabiconi off the back of his performance in the Chanel silent film, to play the young man who catches the attentions of the 52-year-old.
Click here to watch Giabiconi star in Lagerfeld's silent tribute to Coco Chanel.
A sneak peek of that Karl Lagerfeld silent short film, a tribute to Coco Chanel, has found its way onto YouTube, ahead of its debut in Paris last night - but more on that later! The two-minute clip gives us a taste of what Lagerfeld was trying to achieve as part of his pre-autumn/winter 2009-10 presentation, Paris-Moscow. Press play on video above for a touch of old Hollywood film nostalgia with your morning coffee and croissant.
Signalling the way for his Paris-Moscow pre-autumn/winter 2009-10, Karl Lagerfeld has directed a silent film by paying hommage to Coco Chanel.
The short film stars a crop of Lagerfeld's pals, including model Brad Kroenig, actress Tallulah Harlech and her mother, Lady Amanda Harlech, as well as his personal bodyguard/private secretary Sébastien Jondeau as a Russian nightclub owner. Even some of Lagerfeld's fashion house workers made the final cut.
"I cannot take extras," Lagerfeld declares. "They don't know how to touch the clothes."
"We have no budget, we do what we want and throwing money out the window brings money back in through the front door. The bottom line is that I don't deal with the bottom line. The luxury in my life is I never have to think about it."
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