Karl Lagerfeld Thinks E.B.White is New York
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Monday March 19, 2007
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The Gothamist has written an interesting little blurb about Karl Lagerfeld, one of the most influential designers of our time with a very distinct (odd?) personality. Interesting...
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We finally got around to reading the profile of fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld in the New Yorker. Certainly, he's got his quirks. But we liked learning about what Lagerfeld, who reads in English, French, German, and Italian, thought about one famous American writer: "For me, the perfect writing is E. B. White. That's how one should write English. The sound, the language, what it evokes for me. I see New York with the eyes of his book about New York."
Lagerfeld must be referring to White's "Here is New York". He also likes Emily Dickinson - who knew? Read More...