#lizzobeeating

Throughout his career, Lagerfeld was quite open about his disdain for women larger than the typical runway model size, which is considered a 0 or a 2. In an industry that already marginalizes anyone outside of this range, Lagerfeld was among the few designers who actively defended the unspoken practice of hiring exclusively rail-thin models to walk in shows and pose for campaigns, on the grounds that “No one wants to see curvy women,” as he told the German magazine Focus in 2009.

This was not an outlier in the world of misogynistic and fatphobic Lagerfeld quotes. In the very same interview, when he was asked how he felt about the German women’s magazine Brigitte announcing that it would only publish photographs of “real women” instead of models, 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. The world of beautiful clothing is about ‘dreams and illusions.’”