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...director pointed out that "your son isn't interested in art, he's only interested in clothes." Lagerfeld promoted this shortcoming into a virtue by turning quickly to fashion design. At 16, he entered a design competition and won. Another winner was also a teenager, named Yves Saint Laurent...
...nose like the windshield of a small Italian sports car. And that walk: precarious, tippy-toed, tilted so far toward the ground that his knees seem almost like the brass casters underneath an antique armchair. Calvin Klein may be the image of a pumped-up nature boy, Yves Saint Laurent of a tropical flower that would wilt in direct sunlight. But Karl Lagerfeld looks just like, unmistakably like ... well, a fashion designer...
Since then, Yves has been the looming figure perpetually getting in the way of Karl's owned and operated spotlight. Although he insists that Saint Laurent is "the high-fashion designer I prefer to all the other ones," Lagerfeld created a furor last spring with an interview in the Paris-based monthly Actuel in which he had some saucy things to say about his fellow designer. Certainly the reflections (which Lagerfeld claims were not intended for publication) were not out of character for a man who says, "I respect nothing, no one, including myself. Respect is not a very...
...SALIERI finishes his story, his voice carries the hushed excitement of the insane. In cracked tones, he dubs himself the "patron saint" of mediocrity--mediocre, of course, in all but the complexity of his adoration and hatred for Amadeus...
Young Conrad, the hero of the novel, grows up in a Belgian village in a home overrun with luxuriant potted plants. The hothouse upbringing keeps him devout, unworldly and suppliant. At a Catholic school he yearns to become a saint. Tormented by sexual feelings, he admits to his spiritual adviser that "two flies had landed on the page of one of my treatises and were fornicating and I didn't stop them." Conrad makes up for his lustful thoughts by committing holy books to memory and praying for the conversion of atheists. His confessions become so monotonously pure minded...