Karl Lagerfeld has decided to talk about money and insult Meryl Streep.
In an interview with fashion bible Women's Wear Daily, the outspoken designer claimed that Streep backed out from wearing a customized Chanel dress to the Oscars this weekend because the luxury fashion house would not pay her to wear it.
In typical Lagerfeld fashion he lamented, "A genius actress, but cheapness also, no?"
Streep has since denied the designer's claim, with her management issuing a statement to The Hollywood Reporter saying it is against her personal ethics to accept payment for wearing gowns to red carpet events.
The comment comes after the outspoken designer was candid with his thoughts on the actress.
Lagerfeld told the reporter a dress was to be created for Streep for the Oscars ceremony this weekend where Streep is up for the best actress gong for Florence Foster Jenkins.
According to Women's Wear Daily, Chanel was commissioned to customize a grey silk gown for Streep from Lagerfeld's latest couture collection.
Lagerfeld had started to sketch the dress when a phone came in from Streep's people who reportedly said, "Don't continue the dress. We found somebody who will pay us."
Paying celebrities to wear their pieces, Lagerfeld noted, is against Chanel's policy. They do, however, gift dresses with Lagerfeld noting "After we gift her a dress that's 100,000 euros, we found later we had to pay [for her to wear it].
"We give them dresses, we make the dresses, but we don't pay."
This isn't the case for other fashion houses. In 2015 Isabel Wilkinson, a senior editor at The Cut interviewed celebrity stylists including Brad Goreski, Jessica Paster and Brandon Maxwell on the not often spoken about financial arrangements between celebrities and fashion.
Stylists are the ones who help fashion brands get their clothes onto celebrities and it's not small change. According to Paster, stylists receive between US$30,000 to $50,000 for these deals, and actresses can receive up to $250,000.
"The whole point of an actress having a stylist is so you can make more money, or more people want to hire you, or the brand that you're wearing is making more money because it's driving sales.
"It's all wrapped up in money — it's Hollywood — we're not at church," he said.
Well, whoever designs for Meryl needs to be drawn and quartered because she always looks like a hot mess.
ReplyDeleteThe big payment explains a lot considering how bad some of the actresses look. A lot of the dresses look like,"you would have to pay me to wear this!"
ReplyDeletewho has the right to tell an adult woman what to wear? karl is going to end up more burned than meryl by his own comments.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason, I always thought designers paid actresses to wear their clothing.
ReplyDeleteAND, I always thought actress wouldn't wear a designer's clothing unless they received a large check.
(It's probably how designers get cash needy actresses to wear some of the ugliest dresses in the world on the red carpet.)
@duh lol i was just gonna say that haha
ReplyDeleteLot of tarnish showing on St. Meryl's halo of late, with the stories about how she forced studios to promote FFJ into a spot where she'd get an Oscar nod for a lesser performance (that was a blind here and a few other places) and now this. Great actress, but I'm not sold on the image people try to assign to her.
ReplyDeleteMeryl Streep - The c*ntiest of c*nts.
ReplyDeleteDoes this not imply that perhaps her STYLIST changed his/her mind when a designer offered to pay (which the stylist would then keep?)?
ReplyDeleteI love Kunty Karl so much. I would die to have him design a dress for me! Like someone else mentioned, it makes sense she looks gross if she's getting paid to wear these hideous dresses. Interested to see what she shows up in now.
ReplyDeleteKarl should shut up. This is the man who idolizes the Kartrashians because they pay him money to make Kendall a model. That makes him a cheap prostitute.
ReplyDeleteHe really can't complain since he also paid Melania Trump to wear his designs.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. I am "Team Kunty Karl" on this one.
ReplyDeleteI refuse to believe that Meryl would demand payment. Maybe her designer asked, but she would never
ReplyDeleteKarl Lagerfeld is my guilty pleasure I love his sass, his talent ,and his cat It would appall him but he makes me smile .
ReplyDeleteNo, I'm glad Karl said something. When you place an order for a high end product and then have it customized for YOU, and then ditch it and go with some other brand, that first company is stuck with the costs and expenses they would not otherwise have incurred. Things needed to be said and good for Karl, he said them.
ReplyDeleteTeam Karl. Meryl Streep is a backstabbing, ruthless cunt.
ReplyDeleteWell, this makes sense, particularly as some have noted, Meryl frequently does not dress the best (off the rack...):
ReplyDeletehttp://www.showbiz411.com/2017/02/24/meryl-streep-dress-story-rings-false-sounds-like-a-trump-retaliation-chanel-said-to-be-furious
Chanel is a business, he's an employee. With a commission involving so much money the business would require an order in writing..none of this is done an a handshake
ReplyDeleteOMGoodness! Karl just started a SKETCH, not a dress, FGS!
ReplyDeleteAnd, I see Marlo is here in all his trollness. Go away, and clutch your pearls with the LOSER Milo.
I also glad Karl spoke only an idiot would think these female stars are not paid to wear clothes to the Oscars or some award show. This is show biz after all.
ReplyDeleteTrim always gets others to be his pawn and do his dirty work
ReplyDeleteI Agree w above poster this was payback for gg speech
Trump
ReplyDeleteEuuuwww, that's like dressing a dictator's wife. Who is she, the new Imelda Marcos 2.0?
ReplyDeleteFaber-Castell makes some mean Lagerfeld-branded coloured pencils, tho. I just use the 48 pack for plebs...
Yeah. Her looking a certain way at a stupid awards show is so important, right?
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