I didn’t do an all-out review of The September Issue on DVD outside of mentioning it first last Tuesday in my DVD and Blu-ray column, but one excerpt from the deleted scenes I felt was worthy of sharing involves German-born fashion designer and artist Karl Lagerfeld.
In an additional scene Lagerfeld sits down next to US Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and offers an idea for a store featuring only sale items in an effort to make sure people who pay full price for their clothes never have to come in contact with those that wait and buy the same clothes for half the price. It’s a fantastic insider-y moment and just one reason you ought to check the doc out.
Here’s Lagerfeld’s quote with a few words substituted for better understanding due to his somewhat broken English:
“What do you think about [this] — I hate sales, in shops, I think it’s quite degrading — to have a special shop in the street, only open with apparel for sale, [so] people who had bought something for the full price should not be confronted with the people who buy the same thing for less later.
“We just have one shop and they (people that buy things on sale) have to go there. If you cannot pay the full price, you go there.
“You pay less, you (people that pay full price) don’t have any contact with them.
“People (that buy things for sale) should not cross the door, because they get it for less.”
It’s an amazing quote if you ask me. His disgust with people that buy things on sale is so massive he doesn’t even want to come into contact with them, they shouldn’t even be allowed in the door. Magic.
During the conversation, Anna’s daughter Bee is in-between the two and she can only laugh, as does Anna, as his idea goes from having a street sale to the point where people that buy things on sale don’t come into contact with those that pay full price.
The September Issue isn’t loaded with these kinds of examples, but it’s a solid documentary worth checking out. It’s available on DVD now.
