Whether you think Karl Lagerfeld is a terrible monster or you think he’s a brilliant, hilarious shade-throwing madman, can we all agree that Karl gives great interviews? And that his ability to give a good one-liner is practically an art in and of itself? Lagerfeld has a new interview with the New York Times in honor of his 50 year anniversary with Fendi. You can read the whole piece here – it’s full of amazing quotes, per usual. Some highlights:

On Choupette: “I have a famous cat,” said Mr. Lagerfeld, glancing over the cat-printed notepads offered to him and Choupette. Mr. Lagerfeld said he hoped the cat would become more famous than him. “Then I can disappear behind Choupette.”

He prefers working with women: “I’m not crazy to discuss fashion with men. I couldn’t care less about their opinion.”

He doesn’t believe in stress: “I don’t believe in it. It’s a job, one should not become hysterical.”

He hates celebrating any anniversary: “No, no, no, no. This is one of the sicknesses of our period, to look back. No, forget about it. Fashion is now and tomorrow. Who cares about the past? But at Fendi, they like to tour the past. In Germany, they made a huge exhibition of everything I did, Fendi, Chanel, Lagerfeld, Chloé and all that. I’m not even going to the show. I don’t care.”

No archives: “There’s no history. I don’t even have archives, myself. I keep nothing. What I like is to do — not the fact that I did. It doesn’t excite me at all. When people start to think that what they did in the past is perhaps even better than what they do now, they should stop. Lots of my colleagues, they have archives, they look at their dresses like they were Rembrandts! Please, forget about it.

He likes doing fur lines, haute fourrure: “The problem with fur. … For me, as long as people eat meat and wear leather, I don’t get the message. It’s very easy to say no fur, no fur, no fur, but it’s an industry. Who will pay for all the unemployment of the people if you suppress the industry of the fur? The hunters in the north for the sable, they have no other job, there is nothing else to do. Those organizations who are much against it, they are not Bill Gates.

Sympathy for the anti-fur people: “I’m very sympathetic. I hate the idea of killing animals in a horrible way, but I think all that improved a lot. I think a butcher shop is even worse. It’s like visiting a murder. It’s horrible, no? So I prefer not to know it.

Humor in fashion: “I don’t think that most of the designers have a very quick sense of humor. They take themselves very seriously because they want to be taken as artists. I think we are artisans. It’s an applied art. There’s nothing bad about that. If you want to do art, then show it in a gallery.

On selfies: “We live in the world of selfies. I don’t do selfies. But other people do, and they all want to do selfies with me. No, no, no. Thank God, Sébastien, my assistant, he’s mean to the people in the street, mean and rude. I’m a nice person.

His competition: “I don’t see it like competition. I like when there are many people who do good things, because you work better if there is competition than if there are only third-rate people. Paris cannot be Paris only with one. But from me to you, there are very few who have, in terms of craftsmanship, the craftsmanship of high-quality couture. For me, the best — I won’t talk about Chanel, because they have the biggest operation, with 250 workers for the whole couture — is Dior and Givenchy. The others, I prefer not to comment. I am not a fashion journalist.

[From The New York Times]

So much shade, thrown with such a light touch. He likes Dior and Givenchy, but the rest? Third-rate people. Fendi wants to celebrate his 50 years with the fashion house and it’s not worth his time. Talk to a man about fashion? Please. Of course not. Lagerfeld also says he wants to die in his 90s, while still working. He doesn’t plan to retire at all. He takes his cues from Coco Chanel, who he says “died in the middle of a collection when she was in her nearly 90s.” So we’ve still got a long time to enjoy the wit & wisdom of Karl Lagerfeld.

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Justified Season 6, Episode 7 recap

We’re officially halfway through the final season. IT’S NOT ENOUGH.

So much of Justified has been defined by allegiances and legacy, and now more than ever a person’s loyalty is what matters most. Ty Walker is injured and on the run, a…      

Gwyneth Paltrow was out in LA yesterday supporting her very good friends, Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld, at the Inaugural Los Angeles Fatherhood Lunch to benefit Baby Buggy. They’ve been close for years. They hang out together in the Hamptons. They compare stone wood whatever pizza ovens in th…      

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Very soon after Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins split in 2009, Susan took up with a then-31-year-old dude named Jonathan Bricklin. She was 63 years old at the time. I kind of thought it was a flash-in-the-pan rebound romance that would run its course in a few months. After all, she was reaching retirement age and he was a ping-pong hustling hipster. Five years later… well, it lasted longer than I was expecting. But it’s over now! Page Six says Susan (now 68) and Jonathan (now 37) are over.

Susan Sarandon and her much younger boyfriend, SPiN New York co-founder Jonathan Bricklin, have split after five years following a disagreement over a reality show, Page Six has exclusively learned. Bricklin, 37, and Sarandon, 68, both appear on Morgan Spurlock’s new AOL series “Connected,” which centers on six New Yorkers and their partners who were handed cameras to document their lives for six months.

The show, which will air its first episode on March 31, highlights entrepreneur and filmmaker Bricklin’s relationship with Oscar winner Sarandon, but we’re told she grew increasingly annoyed about their private lives being filmed.

“It caused a lot of strain in the relationship,” a source told us. “It’s documented for the show that Susan breaks up with him because she doesn’t want to be involved with the show. She says, ‘You’re a cast member, I’m not.’”

Despite not wanting to be a reality star, Sarandon’s name is listed as Bricklin’s girlfriend in a press release for the show. She is about to start shooting the movie “The Death and Life of John F. Donovan” with Kathy Bates.

“As of now, they’re working on things,” our source said of Sarandon and Bricklin, but it’s unclear whether they’ll get back together.

Sarandon, who had been in a long-term relationship with actor Tim Robbins prior to meeting Bricklin, is an investor in Bricklin’s pingpong franchise. We also heard the show caused strife between Bricklin and his SPiN New York partners — but a SPiN rep insists he’s still a partner in the business. Reps for Sarandon and Bricklin didn’t get back to us last night.

[From Page Six]

It sort of sounds like she thought he was using her to get press. But after five years, it’s not like he suddenly went Full Famewhore, you know? Maybe he wanted her in the show because she was his girlfriend of five years. Anyway, Susan will probably search out some new young lover. Do you think the age difference will be 30-plus years again?

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Okay, I wrote up everything below before we got these photos in of Kim Kardashian’s new blonde hair. Here she is in Paris (for Fashion Week) with Kanye. The blonde looks so terrible, right? And she was having such a great hair moment after her shoulder-length cut. This blonde sucks.

Sigh… anyway, one of my favorite things is when dark-haired ladies talk about hair maintenance. Not just normal hair maintenance either – I loved it when Thandie Newton put it out there that she bleaches her ‘stache. And I kind of love it that Kim Kardashian always talks about her forehead hair and how she lasered it off. Granted, I don’t like Kim’s no-baby-hair forehead look. If anything, it makes her look MORE cat-faced and alien-like. But I do enjoy when brunettes are like, “Yeah, I have facial hair issues.” And that’s what Kim’s new interview with People Magazine is all about:

On her hairy forehead: “I have the hairiest forehead you could ever imagine, and I would always break out and get all cracky on my forehead just from all the hair that I had. So in high school, I would wax it off because there was just so much hair, and then I would laser it off a little bit. If you Google 2008 or 2007, I had the craziest, hairiest hairline, so I did laser it. Everyone would just Photoshop it every time I did a photo shoot [anyway]. I didn’t really change the shape, I just got rid of all the baby hairs.”

The importance of eyebrows: “Eyebrows for me are always really important. I didn’t know how much they shape your face and how different they make your face look. I met Anastasia [Soare] and she was just begging to do my brows and I was like ‘Eh, I don’t know,’ and after she did it changed my life. It literally looked so different. Generally I think that they have a good shape. I love where my eyebrows are going right now.”

She likes pale mani colors: “My go-to nail color is always nude. I like gels, so I like this OPI ‘Samoan Sand‘.”

North is getting into beauty stuff: “She can open my blush, put the brush in and put it on her cheek. Today, she was opening my lipstick. She puts it up to her lips like she know what she’s doing!”

Kanye loves when she goes all natural: “He says, ‘Don’t say that! You look so beautiful. It’s how I like you best.’”

[From People, The Daily Mail]

In this post, I’m including some photos of Kim and Kanye out in Paris today, with her newly blonde hair. I’m also throwing in some photos of her old hairline, circa 2008. I really didn’t think she was all that “hairy” but you can really see a difference to how those baby hairs changed her face (plus, you know, all the Botox and plastic surgery).

Here’s a photo of Kim Kardashian’s hairy forehead, circa 2008:

Her new blonde look:

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, Kim’s Instagram, WENN.

Gillian! Happy 40th Birthday with love from your sister Andrea! By request, your “midget” RDJ.

And for Anita – you’re finished with the treatment and now it’s a dog party! Katie asked me to post pictures of all these beautiful (but sometimes bratty, right?) faces…      

Piers Morgan is a tired old douchebag. I wish Britain would take him back, but I think we’re sort of stuck with him here in America. Can we come to some kind of agreement, Britain? We’ll keep Piers and you take half of the Kardashian-Jenner clan. How about that? Anyway, Piers was invited to the Oscars (to cover them) and he also got invites to some major parties, like the Weinstein Company’s pre-Oscar party the Saturday before the Oscars, and the Vanity Fair Oscar party. And he ended up running into Benedict Cumberbatch at both events. Only on Saturday night, Benedict said something mean about Piers behind his back, so no Piers HATES Bendy. Here are the relevant portions of Piers’ bitchy Mean Girl Oscar Diary.

Saturday night, The Weinstein pre-Oscar party
On a roll, I passed Benedict Cumberbatch on the way into dinner, an actor I’ve long admired on and off screen, and who my whole family, led by my mother, seem to adore. Last year, I interviewed him on the Oscars red carpet and he couldn’t have been more friendly or charming.
So I assumed he would greet my appearance with the same warmth that had drawn him over to my CNN cameras 12 months ago.

‘Good luck tomorrow night, Benedict,’ I gushed. ‘Loved the movie.’

‘Thank you Piers,’ he replied, slightly less enthusiastically. ‘That’s kind of you to say.’

I walked on, then I turned back to see where my wife Celia was, and spotted Benedict and a bearded chap exchanging what looked like mocking glances at me. Celia, who’d been standing right next to them at the time, looked bemused when she reached me. ‘Did you say something to upset Benedict?’

‘No, why?’

‘Because I’m fairly sure I just heard him say “ODIOUS man” about you, emphasising the first word and rolling out the “o” for good effect.’ I felt a dagger pierce my trusting heart.

‘Fairly sure, or certain?’

‘99.9%. It could have been “Oh, delicious man,” but I think we both know that’s unlikely.’

I looked back at Benedict who caught my eye then glanced away sheepishly. I’ve no idea what might have provoked such new secret loathing. Keira Knightley, his co-star in The Imitation Game, can’t stand me after I berated her a few years ago for constantly moaning about the press – and for saying she has the world’s most annoying pout, which is just an indisputable fact. So maybe she poisoned his mind. Or maybe Benedict’s just reached this verdict all by himself, which of course he’s perfectly entitled to do. I’d just admire him rather more if next time, rather than shake my hand and exchange platitudes, he has the b**** to look me in the eye and say: ‘Go away Piers, you odious man.’

Sunday, at the Vanity Fair party:
We spied Joan and Jackie Collins in a booth together, and went over to exchange suitably luvvie hugs and air-kisses. Then I suddenly realised they were sitting with Benedict Cumberbatch.

I blanked him, deliberately, coldly, and in a way that could leave no room for misinterpretation. Mr Cumberbatch needs to reflect on his duplicitous actions. If not for me, then for my mother who will be distraught when she reads this.

[From The Daily Mail]

I’m sorry, but I find it funny that Piers Morgan is so butthurt. Piers Morgan IS an odious man but Benedict should have said that to Piers’ face. And I love that Piers is so lacking is self-awareness that he would actually be offended when someone says he’s odious. If you go and read Piers’ whole Oscar diary, it’s pretty funny too – he’s just name-dropping all of the cool people who said “hello” to him and I guess Benedict was the only one to say one mean thing about him. Piers should know by now: Bendy is the Queen Bee of Bitchy Mean Girls.

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Dear Gossips,

I’m back from elbow surgery. And I’m here to tell you:

Grey’s Anatomy is REAL.

Have you seen Whiplash? You remember how hot that band was? I said to Jacek when we were watching Whiplash: ummm… when I was growing up, band guys were NEVER that hot….      

Kendall Jenner’s modelling career still soars with several recent fashion week gigs. She walked in Milan last week but had to pull out of a few shows when she got sick. I’ve included photos of Kendall walking for Fendi in Milan and H&M in Paris. She’s been nearly inseparable from Cara “Coke Dropper” Delevingne, and they’ve been clubbing together in Milan before moving onto Paris. I wonder how hard Kendall is partying and whether the new habit is related to her sickness.

A new story in this week’s OK! magazine says Kendall is pulling away from the Kardashian Klan in a big way. The source is suspect, but an insider says Kendall wants to move to London. The source could be not-Kris Jenner (or maybe it’s a party buddy of Cara’s), who says, “She’s making a fortune and she doesn’t need them anymore. She’s getting more and more prestigious modeling gigs and doesn’t want to be dragged down by the tacky KUWTK biz anymore.” At least they got the “tacky” detail correct.

Kendall may be ready to end her Hannah-Montana existence. She supposedly doesn’t want Kris to be her manager, but this could all be made up for the show. Sadly, I don’t think there’s any escape for a female Kardashian. Kendall and Kylie are supposed to film their own spinoff show, but moving to London wouldn’t prevent filming.

Oh, and this week’s issue of Star magazine keeps pushing the ridiculous notion that Kendall and Scott Jenner have a thing. The latest story says Scott proposed to Kendall (in a “wildly inappropriate — yet oddly romantic — moment“), and they’re going to run away to Europe together. The tabs have been saying stuff like this for weeks, which is extremely poor taste. Even Lord Disick has enough class to not pursue his sister-in-law. Fake story is fake.

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I was about to go on a rant against PETA, but I have to bite my tongue. PETA sent out a notice and an open letter asking Derick Dillard to apologize for sledding over a small ginger kitty. My first thought was: “Why are they making a stink about that and not the bloody, macabre horror show that was Kid Rock’s Rolling Stone interview?” But as it turns out, PETA did make a statement about the Kid Rock interview. That’s why I’m biting my tongue… this time.

As we discussed yesterday, Derick Dillard is a jackass. He aimed his sled (a baking sheet) straight at a little kitty, just minding her own business. PETA’s “Director of Christian Outreach and Engagement” (???) sent out the following open letter to Dillard:

Dear Mr. Dillard,

I’m writing to you as PETA’s director of Christian outreach and engagement in response to the video you posted on your Instagram account on March 1, which depicts you apparently purposely sledding directly into an unsuspecting cat. Almost more disturbing than your enjoyment in it was your family’s.

Might doesn’t make right, but that’s the message you’ve sent to scores of impressionable young children and loyal fans. I hope you’ll publicly apologize for your actions and remind your followers that Jesus’ command to “do unto others” includes all of God’s creatures.

Sincerely,
Sarah Withrow King
Director of Christian Outreach and Engagement

[From PETA]

Many of you pointed out that the Catholics do animal-rights better than the Baptists. I’ve never really thought about it that way, mostly because I’m surrounded by Baptists in a very dog-friendly area. But yes, I think as far as religious doctrines go, the Catholics probably do animal rights better than the Baptists or whatever wingnut offshoot the Duggars and the Dillards are. And while PETA is usually “no bueno,” I don’t mind them calling out Derick Dillard at all. I still feel a pang for this poor kitty.

Sledding with friends and family at the Duggar home #smallestsled

A video posted by Derick Dillard (@derickdillard) on Feb 28, 2015 at 9:18pm PST

Photos the Dillard-Duggars’ social media.