"When I asked her to tell me stories, she would say, 'Learn to read.' And when I wanted to tell her one, she would come back with: 'You may be four years old, but I am not.'" (Karl Lagerfeld, sharing memories of his mother in "Empreintes", an hour-long profile of the designer to air on France 5 in October)

Given the vast breeding-ground for crazy this kind of nurturing would create in a garden slug, I think we can cut Karl some slack for his super-starched collars, bizarro speeches on anorexic people vs. anorexic clothes, and his ubiquitous Diet Coke butler.

Posted by SAM