the PIPELINE: Style on Tap

Bless you for being so critical. This Chanel worship is absurd. Karl Lagerfeld has turned into a burlesque of himself. He looks ridiculous, and the franchising of this brand has whirled embarrassingly out of control. There will be a double C blood type.

I hear K. Lagerfeld plans to open a Chanelementary school off the coast of Equatorial Guinea...

Dear Anonymous,

We poke fun at excess where needed, but we truly believe this world would be a poorer place without Karl and Chanel (certainly, many seamstresses would be poorer). Never has a Bondian supervillian taken over the world with such genteel style. If there's ever a CC blood type, we'll take a pint with ice, please.

Regards,

The Pipeline

Pipeline dearest,

I'm not saying Lagerfeld is a total waste of (progressively less) space. I agree that many of his contributions to fashion are peerless. What are angering are these endlessly tacky brand extensions. The people who buy these will have money, but not taste. And they, regrettably, are the only ones that fashion seems to be catering to nowadays. And Karl has become such a caricature (you must agree that indoor sunglasses aren't even okay for Usher to wear). Designers are getting so folded up in their own fetishistic hype, they don't realize how much they've strayed---or how much they've stalled. Luckily for Dior Homme, Hedi Slimane was extracted before the clothes got so skinny, there'd have been no fabric left between the seams.

This is crazy! As if the Chanel brand hasn't strayed far enough form what Coco Chanel was all about, this happens. Karl is a fashion icon-we all know that. But Coco Chanel focused on bringing style to the people who arn't millionares. They (the current fashion house of Chanel) have to focus on Ms. Chanel's wishes.

haters to the left, cause it's gonna get raw like sushi up in here - chanel brand sushi which you cannot afford.

jealous much? - the kaiser rules and you haters suck.

he did a line for h&m - that's bringing style to the masses, so...STFU

thanks!

"Haters to the left?" "H&M?" You sound like a poor, garden variety trannie. Which underscores the other poster's point about Chanel being for people with no taste.

hahaha! you poor little jealous guttersnipe. i guess if you know what garden variety trannies sound like you must be one yourself - which goes back to the poster's point about you sad haters - you can't afford it and are so bitter at your exclusion that all you can do is tear it down like a nasty no taste jealous trannie. oh well, you should have listened when your mother told you to get an education...