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"   Photo: Getty Images  It&amp;#039;s been almost three days since Karl Lagerfeld said something wacky. Luckily, the designer hosted a press conference in Japan yesterday\u2014the perfect opportunity to really express himself. At the end of January, Robin Givhan wrote a piece for The Daily Beast/Newsweek in which she asked the same question that everyone in fashion asks, &amp;quot;Is Karl Lagerfeld spread too thin?&amp;quot; She wondered if all of the collaborations and one off collections\u2014Karl, Magnum Ice Cream, Volvo, Diet Coke, Macy&amp;#039;s\u2014were interfering with his &amp;quot;brilliant&amp;quot; work at Chanel. She wrote, &amp;quot;Karl Lagerfeld is overrated. Such a statement rings like heresy within a fashion universe where the highly acclaimed designer struts upon his lofty stage as the creative director of Chanel\u2014but it&amp;#039;s true.&amp;quot; A journalist at yesterday&amp;#039;s press conference asked Lagerfeld how it felt to be called overrated, and he fired back not at Givhan, but at Newsweek&amp;#039;s edtior, Tina Brown. &amp;quot;First of all, Tina Brown&amp;#039;s magazine is not doing well at all. She is dying,&amp;quot; the designer said. And because he&amp;#039;s not one to mince words, he continued, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m sorry for Tina Brown, who was such a success at Vanity Fair, to go down with a shitty little paper like this. I&amp;#039;m sorry.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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