While waiting for Jared Leto's future biopic on Karl Lagerfeld, the MET announced, on September 30, its choice to honor the man with dark glasses in 2023. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will thus host the exhibition "Karl Lagerfeld, A line of 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 to be held on May 1 will also pay tribute to the former artistic director of Chanel.
However, actress Jameela Jamil, known for her committed speeches, was quick to denounce this choice, through several publications on her social networks, Instagram and Twitter.
“This man was extremely talented, but he used his platform in such a hateful way, mostly towards women, so repeatedly and until the last years of his life, showing no remorse, no atonement, no apology” , she wrote in the caption of a photo of the former artistic director of Chanel, pinned with the word “Nope”, or “non” in French.
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“Pretty clothes for the skinniest people”
In a long missive, written in a note, the actress from the series
The Good Place
has listed the many problematic sentences said by the couturier.
“Nobody wants to see curvy women,” he said in 2009, according to a screenshot shared by the actress.
But again: “If you don't want your pants taken off, don't become a model.
Join a convent, there will always be a place for you there”.
Finally, about the Me Too movement: “I've had enough.
What shocks me most about all of this is the starlets taking 20 years to remember what happened.
Not to mention the fact that there are no prosecution witnesses”.
According to the actress, visibly hermetic to the sometimes acerbic humor of Karl Lagerfeld, the latter would often have attacked "women victims of sexual assault, gay couples, all obese people and Muslim refugees".
And to ask himself: “Why are we celebrating this when there are so many brilliant creators who are not “fanatic white men”?
What happened to everyone's principles and “advocacy”?
You can't fight for justice in these areas and then witness the celebration of someone who has exposed their own public disdain for marginalized people.
Sorry but no.
It's not the 90s anymore. We didn't fight all that shit just to throw it all away 'cause
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"Nobody is perfect"
“Keep your opinions to yourself and stop picking on people for attention”
Cara Delevingne
The speech aroused many comments, but also the indignation of certain personalities.
On Twitter, a network on which Jameela Jamil reiterated her remarks, Cara Delevingne did not fail to defend the designer, whom she knew personally.
“You call him ruthless?
Are you kidding me ?
Nobody's perfect, but you clearly didn't know this man so please keep your opinions to yourself and stop picking on people for attention."
A lively debate was thus triggered between the two celebrities, by interposed messages.
"He was not a saint, he was a human being who made mistakes, like all of us," commented the model a little further.
This plea did not succeed in convincing Jameela Jamil, who hastened to reply: "Once again, we cannot attribute decades of abusive rhetoric against minorities to being a 'being human making mistakes”.
Saying it once as a joke and apologizing is one thing.
Repeating it over and over again despite public outcry is quite another.”
We doubt that the actress is one of the personalities present on the day of the event.