My Good Friend Karl Lagerfeld

On Twitter anyway.  I read that he tweets on a regular basis so naturally I had to see for myself, and sure enough, there are 36,193 people plus me following him.  Like Mademoiselle, he shares her penchant for aphorisms. Here is a recent sampling of his tweets, which are by turns insightful, banal and bitchy:

“When I took over Chanel, nobody wanted it anymore. People said don’t touch it, it’s dead. I saw possibility for years to come.”
4/9/09 12:32 AM

“I only wear the latest thing. It’s my job”
3/28/09 6:59 PM

“My dream? Transparent fur. The hair on plastic and not leather. We’ve tried, but nobody has found it yet.”
2/18/09 10:34 PM

“On this day each year, I soak the previous year’s calendar in my mother’s favorite perfume and then set it ablaze. Here’s to a fresh start.”
1/1/08 3:13 PM

“Florals are for middle-aged women with weight problems.”
1/27/09 12:15 AM

Priceless, non?  I’m pretty certain KL writes these gems himself; and from what I understand at this point in his life he owns nothing other than technology.  His collection of iPods numbers in the hundreds and his living space is pretty much a bed (or perhaps a coffin), a bathroom and computers; he has divested himself of most other material things.   This was not always the case, and if you read The Beautiful Fall you’ll know that he has bought, collected and sold vast collections of property and goods from every decorative era from the Rococo to Art Deco and Modernism.

And now that his arch rival Yves St. Laurent has passed Karl is certainly having the final say.  Maybe he’ll live forever, for all we know he could be Undead already.