Karl Lagerfeld Prefers You Not Too Smart and Definitely Not Stinky

Scott Athorne interviewed the ALWAYS interesting Karl Lagerfeld for the Times' Sunday magazine. As expected, it's a very entertaining read.

Of particular note:

He doesn't like intellectuals: "I want to know everything, but I’m not an intellectual, and I don’t like their company. I’m the most superficial man on Earth.” (Explains his keeping company with Lindsay Lohan a few years ago).

Journalists are fine. But not if: "...they are really stupid, or if they’ve got bad breath, or if they smell. Yesterday [at the Chanel couture show] I had a problem. I said, ‘I’m sorry, you’ve got to tell this woman that she needs to be taken away. Her smell is not possible.’” (My most humble apologies, Monsieur Lagerfeld. I was starving so I grabbed a Royale with Cheese before the show.)

Other interesting tidbits include how his mother sent his sisters away to boarding school because she thought they were 'boring', but he (fist pounding on the table) WAS NOT!; he doesn't take himself too seriously (obviously) or see fashion as art, and says that if you dwell on the past then "you might as well commit suicide immediately." I gather he's not on Facebook, then?