February 24, 2017
Karl Lagerfeld Calls Meryl Streep Cheap, Starts WWIII
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Ryan Murphy may have just found the inspiration for the next season of "Feud."
Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, who has a history of saying very disgusting things about women (remember when he called Adele "a little too fat"?), really stepped in it when he tried to come for Meryl Streep.
In a report from WWD, Lagerfeld, the creative head of Chanel, claims Streep ordered a dress from the fashion house - presumably for the Oscars Sunday night - but suddenly canceled her order.
"I made a sketch, and we started to make the dress," Lagerfeld told WWD. A few days later Streep's people called and said: "'Don't continue the dress. We found somebody who will pay us,'" Lagerfeld said, quoting the message.
Lagerfeld said Chanel has a policy of not paying celebrities to wear their clothes.
"We give them dresses, we make the dresses, but we don't pay," he told the publication.
Later in the report, Lagerfeld threw some shade at Streep, who is nominated for Best Actress.
"A genius actress, but cheapness also, no?" he said.
A rep for Streep released a statement to The Hollywood Reporter over Lagerfeld's allegations, saying the claim is "absolutely false, and that it is against her personal ethics to be paid to wear a gown on the red carpet."
