Karl Lagerfeld Takes On Coco Chanel, In Black and White

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Remember the good old days when you could by a gallon of milk for a nickel, when horse-drawn carriages were still a better transportation choice than those god-fangled Model T’s, when you could slap your kids around and not get caught. No, well Karl Lagerfeld does.

He’s trying to bring back the silent movie. He’s creating a ten-minute movie based on Coco Chanel’s early years. Karl decided to skip out on booking real actors and decided to fill the movie with a couple of his own friends — muse Amanda Harlech and daughter Tallulah Ormsby-Gore as customer and model, Brad Kroenig as Chanel lover Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, and bodyguard Sebastien Jondeau as a Russian general. Coco Chanel’s role was filled by Lithuanian model Edita Vilkeviciute.

I’m trying to feign interest in this 10 minute commercial slightly disguised as a movie, but I’m not supporting any designer films until Tom Ford gets his movie on the big screen. Plus, black and white silent films are just a bit to 1920′s for my millennial ass. I was more impressed when Chanel came out with an iPhone App.