now that i've come out of my fashion-weeks-and-weeks-induced coma, i'm back, feeling refreshed and ready to get back to doing whatever it is that i do around these wee bit parts.
things have quieted down some in the fashion world, editors-at-large are coming out with new, less-scary, but totally new and annoying words for the downturn of the economy like "recessionista" - and i'm already bored to tears about the articles covering how one can save money and buy less. but one mustn't forget that this... (i'm twirling my hands over my head), all of this is just a little bit of fantasy, a little bit of aspirational dreaming... a little bit of fun. so, don't go out and buy it, because you probably already have "it"... and you know exactly what i'm talking about...
and if you don't get that it's all a bit of a day-dream, let this tid-bit of a conversation between the olsens and kaiser karl remind you how silly it can all be:
(photo and text: nymag.com)
"Where we see cupcakes, Karl sees plastic.
AO: What do you do now to stay in shape?
KL: Nothing … I have a doctor who I made a book with that sold five
million copies all over the world. Every country bought one, I think,
in Russia and Italy and everywhere. But I don't get it — I don't know
what Japan is going to do with a European diet book … Since I started
my diet, which was like eight years ago, I haven't touched what I'm not
supposed to: sugar, cheese, nothing! I don't even look at it. It looks
to me like plastic.
He hates tall, chatty models.
KL: [N]owadays you start to model because you're young.
Now the girls are sixteen, seventeen, fifteen, and Russian. They are
like from another planet
AO: They can look very bizarre!
KL: I hate all these tall women. They are all giants!
MKO: If only I were a little taller — that would make me happy!
KL: You are one meter fifty-one. You are taller than that?
AO: We're five feet and one inch.
KL: Oh, I thought my office told me that you were four-foot eight or
something. Not that it matters. What you need is a face. If you have a
face you don't need height or a voice. Models know this; that's why the
good ones don't need to talk much.
And he hates working with male models.
KL: I like to work with models for a long time.
Sometimes the girls change, but some girls I work with for years and
years. With male models it is different. I hate working with male
models.
AO: Ah, well boys come and go!
KL: And I hate doing castings and things like this. "oh no you're not
right" — that's horrible to say to someone. I never do castings. Other
people do them, and then I see the result of the casting. It's
humiliating for the models.
Nor does he like to hear a man's opinion.
KL: I don't have people I don't like around me ever.
MKO: You don't have to.
KL: …I don't work with many men. I don't want to ask the men about the fashion. Their opinion doesn't interest me.
He gives the girls family-planning advice!
KL: I like more classic [shapes] now. Best thing to do
for skinny people to wear tight dresses. Although jeans are becoming
too tight.
AO: Ah! Yes, it's becoming a problem. It's the worst.
KL: You can kill yourself in these jeans.
MKO: Ha, I'd rather stay inside with my friends than limp out in tight trousers.
KL: Maybe you'll stay inside with a baby. Do you want to get married? Children? Two perfect mums, yes?
[Mary-Kate and Ashley look at each other]
KL: Ah! Don't worry, you have time. You're young. Don't you want to get married?
MKO: I don't feel the need to get married. But Ashley wants children. I'll be a great aunt or godmother.
AO: To my child.
KL: [To Ashley] Are you planning?
AO: No. I don't even have a boyfriend. You have to plan that first, right? Figure that out first?
KL: If you get a boyfriend it doesn't mean that! Today you can have a
baby first. If you want. I never liked the idea of a family at all. If
it's a woman — it's more fun for a woman.
Karl sheds light on why he's the face of that road-safety ad in France.
MKO: It can be dangerous when you're driving
[in L.A.] particularly, because they follow you in cars and scooters.
That's bad. That's not easy.
KL: I had two accidents where I fell asleep — after that I thought it
was better that I don't drive. I'll get a driver. I'm a bad driver
because I want to look there, there, and up there. I get bored easily —
so twice I fall asleep and twice the car is destroyed … I had nothing
[wrong] with me — but both cars were destroyed."
....from "influence", the olsens forthcoming coffee-table book. which i may just have to get, because if this interview is any indication of what the rest of the book is going to be like, it may very well be the most hilarious book ever published.
