It was the advice international governments around the world were looking for — Karl Lagerfeld’s thoughts on benefits.
Designer Karl Lagerfeld believes that current welfare schemes for public should be scrapped in favour of bonus systems, which offer extra payments for those who are “well turned-out”. The Chanel legend says that if he was king, he’d make a few key changes starting with benefits and dress code. He said, “I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness,” reports IANS.
The designer — who proclaims himself a caricature — is known for his notably outspoken views. He once called Adele “a little bit fat”, asserted that Pippa Middleton “struggles” and should “only show her back” and declared that tracksuit bottoms “are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.”
And he’d also like to declare war on the uneducated: “Being well turned-out is not a question of means. Benefits for families would be replaced by maintenance bonuses for those who make an effort,” he added. The 81-year-old designer would also like to see parents educate their children more because he thinks it would reduce the number of people suffering from degenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
He speaks several languages, including German, English, French and Italian, so it comes as no revelation that the designer would like to improve education because in fact it prevents Alzheimer’s.
“Studying the dictionary should be compulsory. One page per day, like my mother made me do when I was little, with parents testing children in the evening,” he said. “I would make everybody learn two or three languages. Being trilingual is essential, it opens doors for you, opens your mind and helps you avoid Alzheimer’s disease,” he added, reports Glamour magazine.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 18th, 2015.
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