Iconic German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has weighed into the debate on skinny magazine models, ridiculing the backlash against super skinny models.
"Curves should not be allowed on the catwalk", designer Karl Lagerfeld was quoted as saying, after a Bridgette magazine recently announced that it was banning skinny models in favour of 'real women'.
"No one wants to see curvy women," Lagerfeld said. "You've got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying that thin models are ugly," he said.
The world of high fashion is about "dreams and illusions", he added, dismissing as "absurd" the debate prompted by the magazine which said it would no longer feature professional models on its pages.
Brigitte, one of Germany's top women's magazines, said last week it would only publish photographs of 'real women' after readers complained they could not identify with the models depicted.
The magazine’s co-editor Andreas Lebert said many women found the idea of beauty conveyed by fashion models to be “outdated” and “moulded by the fashion industry.”
