The head of fashion house Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, has branded pop icon Adele "a little too fat".

The German designer let his controversial opinions known during an interview in which he also declared Russian men "ugly" and the Royal Family "unnecessary"

Speaking to the Metro New York newspaper, which he was guest-editing for the day, he said: "The thing at the moment is Adele.

"She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice."

Fans of the 23-year-old star have taken to networking site Twitter offering support following the comments.

American PR guru Kelly Cutrone hit out at Lagerfeld, writing: "If you love Adele then boycott Chanel - Boo Karl".

A fan tweeted: "A little too fat for what? Too fat to become a global phenomenon, or too fat to be a talentless clothes horse? This bloke seems like an idiot."

He was slightly more complimentary about US singer Lana del Rey who he said was "not bad at all".
Asked about Russia, the man known as King Karl said: "If I was a woman in Russia I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly."

Lagerfeld - who once said of Diana, Princess of Wales, "she was pretty and she was sweet, but she was stupid" - also took aim at the Queen who he described as "a more smiley version" of her grandmother.

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‘I don’t find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I’ve never had a problem with the way I look. I’d rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.’

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I can't find the 'quote' I was looking for so maybe I have read it wrong!

Rich coming from you, but nevermind.

Why should the country become more fat friendly? So we can make it easier for fat people to exist? Making being fat more acceptable. Also making the NHS have to deal with many more weight related illnesses?

There was another program on recently called something like junk food mums. This obese woman had convinced herself so much that she was happy about being fat. Eventually it took the old story of her step daughter giving her a sob story that she wanted her to see her getting married and have kids and all that shit.

Eventually at the end of the show they told us she'd started some amount of exercising and her weight had STABILISED at 36 stone. Basically meaning the fat bitch was still putting on weight and now she's stopped and is maintaining the same weight.

It's no way to live your life. I'm not saying everyone should be stick thin but being morbidly obese is not a successful lifestyle choice

She's not saying be fat, she's promoting being positive about yourself and doing whatever it is that makes you feel combfertable.

That is completely different to what Adele is saying.

If you look at trends in history and in different cultures weight is treated differently.

XI you talk about fat as being all encompassing. Do you actually only mean fat to the point of morbid or around that, rather than clinically? Someone can be overweight, and not a strain on NHS etc.

Mmm I think if a 'model' said "I would rather go to the gym than go for lunch with friends" it would be a different story.

Who cares what Adele says? I'm just against overweight people and it shouldn't have a place in our society

There is a line though mate as Dom says. You can't just say ALL overweight people don't have a place in our society. Someone could be one pound overweight and fall into that category.

I do, however, have no time for the morbidly obese unless it is for health reasons they are like that in the first place. I had a teacher for instance that had a glandular problem which caused her weight to balloon which was a shame.

right now I can't be arsed with details but I'm talking about the big 30 stone cunts that think the way they live is right and think that the world owes them a favour because they're incapable of putting down the fork.

And before people start. I know some people have conditions that make it impossible for them to be anything else, but most of them are just lazy bastards

If a model said that I would think she's an idiot. Most models are too skinny and look weird.


Yeah, they're disgusting. We're talking about Adele, she must be under 16st?

Interestingly, there are a significant number of people who eat loads and dont put on weight but are ruining their bodies just the same as the fat collects around the organs instead of ballooning and slowly fucks em up that way and still costs the NHS... Just saying like....

like i said earlier. I have no clue what Adele looks like. I'm surprised no one's posted a photo in here

Same program as before, this mother only ever ate McDonalds for breakfast, lunch and dinner and now it's all she feeds her kids.

She was sitting there like an idiot saying 'but the kids enjoy it. They never moan about eating a McDonalds'. Funny that. These people really shouldn't be allowed to have kids

Touring is. Didn't Adele's Dr tell her to take 6 months or more off or risk losing her singing voice?

My sentiment exactly.

Well anyone who spends time in the gym clearly has self image problems. So you're right.


I've had several mates that do the whole "no matter what I eat I just can't seem to put on weight". Try my diet and alcohol intake maggot boy, you'll have a beer shelf in no time.

Self image problems? Eh am I missing something?

Well while we're all throwing generalisations around I thought I'd make my position on gym-going known. Never understood them. An exercise in pure vanity.

Sports, fine. Running around parks, fine. Skateboarding, climbing, biking horse riding.. all fine. But going to the gym? Mental and a little bit sad.

Or enjoys being healthy? There's a difference between being comfertable and the juice heads

Surely thats what sports and physical activities are for. I think its the fact that going to the gym is specifically about honing your body for looks, you're focusing on the spots that you feel need work.. you're not training your body for a purpose, like an athlete or sportsman.. its just pure exercise for vanity's sake.