LET THEM EAT CAKE. “Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel’s chief designer, recently made headlines by suggesting that Chanel customers lose weight if they want to wear his tiny new “shrink-to-fit” creations,” writes Chris Hoyt in Out There. “Although everyone got a lot of laughs out of his advice (particularly his “this is not something fascist we are imposing” remark), his apparent disregard for the customer struck an uncomfortably familiar chord when it comes to the promotions we see coming out of too many packaged goods promotion agencies …”
