It feels like FOREVER since we’ve heard any news about the most important fashionista in the world, Choupette Lagerfeld. Choupette was discussed in her daddy’s new Guardian interview at some length, and of course Karl Lagerfeld had some magnificent shade for lots of other people and things. But no shade for Choupette. This man… he is a late-in-life cat person. Choupette is everything to him, daughter, wife, friend, companion and his greatest love. You can read the full Guardian piece here, and here are some highlights (including several magnificent one-liners)

Sloppy: “To be sloppy after 25 is a problem. You have to be really fresh to wear stuff that doesn’t look fresh.”

On tattoos: “it’s like sleeping in a printed T-shirt, you will never get clean again”

Shade for other designers: “Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?”

Cara Delevingne: “She is not a standout beauty. Was it Bacon who said, ‘There is not beauty without some strangeness in the proportions’?”

On selfies: “They are this horrible thing where you are distorted. The chin is too big, the head is too small. No, this is electronic masturbation.”

He does 17 collections a year: “If you like what you do, you don’t count.”

Choupette: Lagerfeld claims he gets picture updates of Choupette’s activities from the cat’s maid every hour. As proof, he shows me the most recent one of her resting on a pile of books at his home. “Everything is controlled by her. She wakes me up at 7am because she wants me to bring her fresh croquettes, she won’t touch food from the night before, she gets offers for food commercials but it is out of the question. She is a kept woman.”

Making affordable Chanel sneakers: “You cannot dance at three parties on the same evening. I always said to my investors to put it on another level and make it affordable. I think that’s a modern attitude… Everyone is wearing them. I thought it was an elegant idea to put them with dressy things. If you look at fashion from the 1840s women wore flat shoes. Stella Tennant, in real life, I’ve hardly ever seen her in stilettos.”

His work ethic: “I always think I’m lazy, maybe I could do better, I could make more effort and I always have the feeling that there is a glass wall that I cannot get through. But maybe when I get through, then it’s over.”

[From The Guardian]

The Guardian writer talks a lot about how savvy Lagerfeld is, and how this current version we see of him if much more humorous, like everything he’s doing now is being done with a wink and nudge. I think that’s what the Chanel-Walmart Paris show was about – Karl making fun of fashion, trolling everyone. And people are still eating it up.

As for Choupette and how she’s a kept woman who wakes up her daddy at 7 am and demands to be fed… my God, Choupette is really living the life, right?

Photos courtesy of WENN, Harper’s Bazaar.