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"    Photo: Getty Images   Karl Lagerfeld always has something up his leather glove. On the heels of announcing he would direct Chanel&amp;#039;s 100th anniversary short film, the Kaiser of collaboration f\u00EAted his latest collection for iconic Brazilian shoe brand, Melissa, last night at the retailer&amp;#039;s concept store in Soho. The Galeria Melissa&amp;#039;s walls were plastered with larger-than-life imagery of Cara Delevingne, shot by Lagerfeld himself, from the designer&amp;#039;s 16-page feature for Melissa&amp;#039;s in-house magazine, Plastic Dreams. The high-impact photographs featured fashion&amp;#039;s golden girl sizzling while wearing the statement-making plastic designs\u2014including the tongue-in-cheek ice cream cone heels.   Before Lagerfeld bids NYC adieu, ELLE.com took the opportunity to chat with the man of the night and discovered that he is just as smitten with Delevingne as the rest of us. ELLE: What do you love about Cara Delevingne? Karl Lagerfeld: Cara represents the modern It girl. Some people say she&amp;#039;s the new Kate Moss, which I think is ridiculous. She&amp;#039;s not the new Kate Moss. Kate&amp;#039;s on another level. Cara is different. She&amp;#039;s full of life, full of pep. I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny. ELLE: What do you see in her future? KL: I don&amp;#039;t know because she&amp;#039;s interested in music and things like this. Cara says, &amp;quot;I will try everything!&amp;quot; ELLE: Is there a certain kind of girl you imagine in these Karl Lagerfeld for Melissa shoes? KL: Whoever wants them, you know. It&amp;#039;s very pretentious to say this is for them and not others. Not everyone is Cara Delevingne. You could wear them! ELLE: Oh, well thank you! What inspired you to incorporate an ice cream cone into the designs? KL: If you look at an ice cream cone, it looks like a stiletto. It&amp;#039;s a visual transposition. ELLE: You will be collaborating with Melissa again, yes? KL: I said I&amp;#039;d do another collection. I like collaborations, but I don&amp;#039;t want collaborations to be endless like my contracts with Fendi, Chanel, and Lagerfeld. This is a little stimulation for me from the outside. ELLE: What did you love about working with a Brazilian brand? KL: I had never worked with Brazilian people. The best way to know people is to work with them. But I&amp;#039;m not a tourist because a tourist meets nobody anymore. They meet other tourists and that&amp;#039;s boring. I was also intrigued by the technique because I had never, ever done shoes like this. The shoes I&amp;#039;ve done for Lagerfeld, Fendi, and Chanel are done in a different technique. ELLE: You will be directing Keira Knightley as she takes on the role of Coco Chanel, what can we expect? KL: The movie is very, very funny with Keira Knightley as Coco. It&amp;#039;s about the first shop opening in Deauville in 1913. We will rebuild all the streets to look like it was then. ELLE: What made Keira Knightley the right choice for the role? KL: She does a lot for Chanel. And the way she looks, she could be a modern Coco Chanel. She&amp;#039;s a funny, divine girl. ELLE: And her cheekbones? KL: Yes, I love cheekbones. Read the latest breaking fashion news. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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