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Wolfgang Joop (archive photo): Indignation about the fashion designer on Twitter
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Fashion designer Wolfgang Joop commented on statements on Instagram and Facebook that he had given SPIEGEL. In the interview, Joop said that he cried when Karl Lagerfeld died because an era had come to an end and “this world was so wonderfully frivolous and frigid. Everything was for sale. The agencies gave the keys to the rooms of the models, who did not bring that much money, to rich men. And when a girl complained, they said: We can do without you too. "
To the reply that this was terrible, Joop replied: »Yes.
But the fashion world is only really beautiful if there is also sin. «Joop now said on Facebook and Instagram that he had pointed out in drastic terms» the corruption and frivolity of the industry in the 1970s and 1980s «.
Their component was "unfortunately also the disrespectful and abusive treatment of models".
"My statement about sin in the fashion world was misplaced in context," wrote the 76-year-old.
Joop had previously been heavily criticized on Twitter: »Broken guy«, wrote one user - another tweeted that Joop was literally crying after the »good old days«, when models were still sold and abused like carnal goods.
For his choice of words in an interview with SPIEGEL, he wanted to apologize to all those who were upset or hurt by this.
It is important to him to emphasize that he "deeply rejects any form of abuse of power and violence then and now".
The respectful treatment of each person is his top priority, both inside and outside the industry.
kha / dpa
