While the Met Gala announced that it will dedicate its next edition to the late designer in 2019, the decision is at the heart of a heated debate on social media, started by actress Jameela Jamil.
In anticipation of Jared Leto’s upcoming biopic on Karl Lagerfeld, the MET announced on Sept. 30 that it is choosing to honor the man in the dark glasses in 2023. Thus, the Metropolitan Museum of New York will host the exhibition “Karl Lagerfeld, One Line”. beauty”, the first international retrospective since the designer’s death in February 2019, from May 5 to July 16, 2023. The museum’s famous gala, which will take place on May 1, will also pay tribute to the former artistic director of Chanel.
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However, actress Jamila Jamil, who is known for her devotional speeches, was quick to condemn this choice through several posts on her social media platforms, Instagram and Twitter. “This man was extremely talented, but he used his platform to hate, mostly women, so repeatedly and until the last years of his life, showing no remorse, no atonement, no apology,” she wrote. A photo of the former artistic director of Chanel with the word “Nope” or “non” posted in French.
“Beautiful clothes for the thinnest people”
The actress of the series wrote in the post in a long letter Good place thus listed the many problematic statements uttered by the couturier. “Nobody wants to see curvy women,” she said in 2009, according to a screenshot shared by the actress. But again. “If you don’t want to be taken off your pants, don’t become a model. Join the monastery, there will always be a place for you.” Finally, about the “Me too” movement. What shocks me the most about all of this is that it took the stars 20 years to remember what happened. Not to mention the fact that there are no witnesses for the prosecution.”
According to the actress, the sometimes sharp humor of the noticeably hermetic Karl Lagerfeld, the latter would often attack “sexually abused women, gay couples, all fat people and Muslim refugees”. And ask himself a question. “Why are we celebrating this when there are so many brilliant creators who aren’t ‘bigoted white men’?” What happened to everyone’s principles and “advocacy”? One cannot fight for justice in these spaces and then witness the celebration of someone who has revealed their own public contempt for marginalized people. Sorry but no: It’s not the 90s anymore. We didn’t fight it all just to throw it away because some white guy made nice clothes for skinny people.”
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“Keep your opinions to yourself and stop paying attention to people”
Cara Delevingne
The speech caused many comments, but also the indignation of individual persons. On Twitter, a network where Jamila Jamil repeated her words, Cara Delevingne did not hesitate to defend the designer she knew personally. “You call him ruthless. Do you accept me? Nobody’s perfect, but you obviously didn’t know this person, so please keep your opinions to yourself and stop focusing on people.” Thus, a lively debate ensued between the two celebrities with intermittent messages. “He was not a saint, he was a person who made mistakes, like all of us,” commented the model a little while ago.
This request failed to convince Jamila Jamil, who quickly replied: “Once again, we cannot attribute decades of abusive rhetoric against minorities to ‘fallible human beings.’ It’s one thing to say something jokingly and apologize once. Repeating it over and over despite public outcry is another.” We doubt that the actress is one of the personalities present on the day of the event.
Source: Le Figaro
