Luxury makes world go round, says Karl Lagerfeld

Good luck with this, enacting that 75% income tax rate and all. I would give up working if I were French.

amazing to live life producing nothing of value and being rewarded for it nonetheless. Maybe though it is worse than that... as he actually believes he has somehow done something important - when history will render him and all the fashionistas utterly irrelevant.

He would not be speaking up about this if he had no concerns over the decline the luxury industry is undergoing due to the economy and shift in values.

This man ruined Chanel's aesthetics and sold out. Such decadent luxury without artistic style is empty, disposable and sickening.