Karl Lagerfeld Confuses Facebook With The iPad...Or Something (VIDEO)

Karl Lagerfeld thinks Facebook is a "flawless object" covered in white gold. ...Wait, what?

In a recent interview with The Luxury Channel, the German fashion designer spoke knowingly about design aesthetics and passing fads in both fashion and technology. When asked to describe technology he finds "amazing," Lagerfeld said,

Facebook is a flawless object. It's for me like a Brancusi. As I told you, I got one as a gift in gold -- in white gold. And the BlackBerry too, and the iPod. I have all those from a gift, I wouldn't buy it. But somebody gave me all those things in white gold. They are beautiful objects on the table -- they are stunning. I don't use them because I don't have to use them.

Perhaps, as Styleite posits, he confused Facebook with the iPad. Or, as Switched writes, "he's confusing hardware and UIs, or maybe he sees the entire 500-million-strong network as just another gleaming object in his curio cabinet of the world."

While Lagerfeld praised certain popular gadgets for their "beautiful" design, he also said that devices like the BlackBerry are a mixed blessing. On the one hand, he says, "everything is possible" in a world of constant connectivity. On the other hand, people seem to be "half with you and half somewhere else."

Speaking about the Internet, Lagerfeld said, "[It] is a wave, it will fade away, maybe." He compared the Internet to the Walkman, which Sony discontinued last month, and added, "When things become too popular, they are always fading away for something else."

Take a look at the video (below) to see The Luxury Channel's full interview.

WATCH: [via Styleite]

Comments

[kinoptikation]

03:26 AM on 11/23/2010

Dr. Stranglove

[olivesforbreakfast]

01:10 PM on 11/22/2010

Would it be OK expand this conversation about Karl Lagerfeld just a bit? Let's turn a lemon into lemonade kind of thing because this focus upon one misplaced word just doesn't do him justice.

So here's an idea. A book called "The Beautiful Fall : Fashion, Genius and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris" by Alicia Drake was published a few years ago. I read it and loved it. It's all about Yves St. Laurent, Pierre Berge, Karl Lagerfeld, and the Paris scene at the time. What a great read.

I should mention that Karl did not like this book at all and tried to have it banned in France (or something like that). It could seem, on first reading that YSL comes off 'better' than Karl, hence his effort to defend himself against it.

But I felt otherwise. I think Karl comes off amazingly well. Rarely do we encounter a portrait of an artist with as much scope, depth, energy, vision, and commitment to his work. Add to this his extraordinary aesthetic and erudition.

So maybe this HuffPost piece can open a door to exploring this man more deeply. He's a one of a kind and a true inspiration to all kinds of artists and regular folks. I love how he speaks his truth, lives his life on this terms. Maybe others will agree.

http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Fall-Fashion-Genius-Glorious/dp/B00375LND8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1290449234&sr=8-1

[cg h]

11:27 AM on 11/22/2010

Oh, give the celebrity a break... he used one wrong word at the end of the entire interview, after stating that he doesn't use those things, anyway. The interview, for the Luxury Channel, was evidently about Luxury for which he made very cogent distinctions between having luxurious things and living a life of luxury (which very few can afford), and appreciating true quality -- yet that the luxurious quality of living in the present we can have by orienting our minds. Having built a career on his intuitive sense of beauty, he simply remarks that these technological artifacts are perfect objects of beauty, independent of their function. So there.

[mrcontinental]

11:26 AM on 11/22/2010

Lagerfeld is still the man! I met him in Bonn back in 1987 and he was brilliant, smooth as silk. "Lagerfeld" the fragrance is still unbeatable.

[MrVee]

10:27 AM on 11/22/2010

OK, I don't get why this isn't on the Style pages of Huff Po. This dude knows clothes, money and probably has a smart phone. Why attempt to make light of the fact that older people aren't as "connected" as younger people and make this a tech story?

[taters n beans]

07:57 AM on 11/22/2010

When did he morph into Peter O'Toole?

[democles]

07:11 AM on 11/22/2010

White gold... dug from the ground by little slaves... is that what Count von Lagerfeld

[JLRoberson]

05:38 AM on 11/22/2010

I was just wondering what Dracula's opinion on technological trends was. Thanks!

[AristophanesJones]

04:18 AM on 11/22/2010

"Andre! Could you send me a fan?"

[PlutocratsSuck]

02:15 AM on 11/22/2010

Oh God!.................my eyes!

[Rubyfoo]

12:46 AM on 11/22/2010

Danken Sie Herr Lagerfield for the incisive comments. I don't know who or what you are, but your name does seem vaguely familiar. I do wish I hadn't seen your picture, very unfortunate.

[netzwerg]

03:38 AM on 11/22/2010

He is the guru of all the supermodels, very awesome!!
http://www.harpersbazaar.com/cm/harpersbazaar/images/054_KARL-LAGERFELD-PAP-SS09DUFOUR-de-53811954.jpg
http://www.n24.de/media/_fotos/bildergalerien/2008_4/karllagerfeld/karl_lagerfeld9picturealliance.jpg
http://www.fem.com/fileadmin/content/2_Fashion/2009_10/chanel-lagerfeld-models-im-heu-sommer-2010.JPG

[RasputinsLiver]

12:28 AM on 11/22/2010

Are you sure....

....that isn't Andy Warhol's corpse exhumed and wearing another wig?

Good gods that guy's creepy looking.

[Steve Richmond]

12:23 AM on 11/22/2010

"no comment."

[Robert Turner]

12:12 AM on 11/22/2010

Back to your crazy pills, skeletor.

[Unimatrix42]

11:38 PM on 11/21/2010

Go back to the home grandpa.