Outspoken fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld is facing legal action in France after saying ‘nobody wants to see curvy women on the runway’.
The 80-year-old German, who is based in Paris, also blamed ‘fat people’ and their associated illnesses for his adopted country’s vast public health deficit.
Now a women’s pressure group called ‘Belle, Ronde, Sexy et je m’assume’ (Beautiful, Rounded, Sexy and fine with it) want to see Lagerfeld fined for his views.
Spokesman Betty Aubriere said they had filed a defamation complaint, saying Chanel’s creative director had displayed a ‘discriminatory’ attitude towards those with fuller figures.
It was during an episode of French talk show ‘Le Grand 8’ (The Big 8) on Channel D8 earlier this month that Lagerfeld accused ‘fat people’ of wasting the country’s tax revenue through their ailments.
He said ‘the hole in social security’ was all down to ‘diseases caught by people who are too fat’.
Lagerfeld also repeated his long held belief that: ‘Nobody wants to see curvy women on the runway.’
Ms Aubriere told French news agency AFP: ‘These insults by celebrities must stop. We’re sick of it.
