{"id":160177,"date":"2012-02-09T15:01:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T11:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=160177"},"modified":"2012-02-09T15:06:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T11:06:46","slug":"putin-looks-great-but-other-russian-men-are-ugly-says-karl-lagerfeld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/02\/09\/putin-looks-great-but-other-russian-men-are-ugly-says-karl-lagerfeld.html","title":{"rendered":"Putin Looks Great, But Other Russian Men are Ugly, Says Karl Lagerfeld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has branded Russian men as ugly, Mrs.Obama as magical, and Queen Elizabeth as being a more smiley version of her grandmother Queen Victoria, in a column he wrote as guest editor-in-chief of Tuesday&#8217;s edition of Metro, a global newspaper, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.ria.ru\/society\/20120208\/171209517.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">RIA Novosti<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> reports.<\/p>\n<p>As part of a series of images of key political figures for the Metro, he created a drawing of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin wearing a crown with the inscription \u201cPutin\u2019s dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About Putin, who is a candidate in the upcoming presidential elections, he said: &#8220;You know he looks great. I don\u2019t even know how old he is. Well, I don\u2019t think he is that old.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Putin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-160132\" title=\"Putin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Putin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Putin.jpg 300w, https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Putin-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Barack Obama: \u201cI&#8217;m a big fan of Mrs. Obama and her face, I think, is magical. My favorite thing about Mrs. Obama was when she was asked if her skirt was not too tight and she answered, \u2018Why, you don&#8217;t like my big black ass?\u2019 I want Obama to win because there is nothing better anyway, and especially because of her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Russian men: \u201cIf I was a woman in Russia I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell&#8217;s boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has branded Russian men as ugly, Mrs.Obama as magical, and Queen Elizabeth as being a more smiley version of&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[37953,37963,26009,37964,37965,16056],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}