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Perez Hilton is reportin' that Steiff Bears are planning on doing their best Karl Lagerfeld impersonations soon. RIGHTEOUS!
According to HighSnobiety, the Karl Lagerfeld Teddy Bear will be released in September at Neiman Marcus in New York and will go for around 1400 USD apiece.
Excellent find, Chief Sister Ossifer!
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By Lorca's Etchings! Exclusivity, No?
Pic would be cooler if it was a real bear.
The bear is smiling! (bleen?)
Some one save that poor teddy from the evil clutches of Lagerfeld! Quick! Wait. Is Lagerfeld real or is he stuffed?
He looks like a waxwork. Eek!
[well he sure ain't *real*... - Ed.]
The stuffed bear is what is left once the Lagerfeld finishes sucking the life out of all humans that approach it. Nice way to get rid of your victims Karl.
I think this is my first time to say, I don't see anything cute about that. Can someone point out the qte?? I'm lost.
Who is Lagerfeld?
Karl Lagerfeld is an android. Nothing will convince me otherwise.
*initial laugh choked off by the hands of absurdity.
Karl Lagerfeld is a "high end" clothing designer that has adopted the personae of a corpse that is related to Michael Jackson and Dracula. He always looks this way.
@ gizmo: "Who is Lagerfeld?" Seriously?
But if they're gonna charge 1400 bucks for the thing, it could look a little more like him. I mean, anyone can put a black suit on a generic bear. Coco is turning in her grave.
@ Angela-Eloise: Don't be a couture snob. Yes, there are people in the world who are not familiar with Karl Lagerfeld and who do not spend their days flipping through Vogue. Who cares?
Wow SM - I would hope that that was highly sarcastic. If not, it was very rude.
Angela-Eloise - I agree with you 100% LOL $1400 - good grief!!!
Yes, Lagerfeld is slightly creepy, but I love Steiff stuffed animals. That Lagerfeld bear is FIERCE. I inherited some seriously awesome Steiff animals from an old rich relative when I was little. I even have a Steiff rhino! A Steiff felted pig! A Steiff owl that stands on his own! And if something bad happens, I could probably sell them and pay my entire college tuition (but I never would).
Somebody hand me another bon bon.
I'll take THREE
Love the fierce look on their faceses
But the bear is smiling! Lagerfeld doesn't smile. He appreciates straight, clean lines...ON HIS FACE.
But the sunglasses are poking into the little bears ears...that can't be comfterbul.
i hope it comes with Lagerfeld's #1 diet tip:
don't exercise, dahling; it vill just make you hungry.
really, it's never too early to learn.
Now is the time on Sprockets when we dance.
And yeah, not everyone knows who Lagerfeld is. It's not so bad when you consider most people can't name more than a single Supreme Court Justice.
I used to work in a collectible shop and my boss gifted me 3 steiff bears and 1 gund bear...
And if anyone knows anything about these bears - they are wickedly cute but sooo terribly expensive!
i hope it comes with Lagerfeld's #1 diet tip:
don't exercise, dahling; it vill just make you hungry.
really, it's never too early to learn.
oh weird. sorry, my interwebs must be broke.
How about a new category for "Very Sad."
Hmmmm....to have enough $$ to blow for this!! Of course, it's all relative, isn't it?? $1400 bear, $40 "Caturday" tote!!
$1400 per bear? have they lost grip on reality? i don't care if it's modelled after g*d hirself, no stuffie is worth that amount. it would be nice if that money went to a charity rather than in the pockets of an already rich man.
Yipes!
New category?
"Cute or Scary"?
Are you effin kidding me - $1400 for a teddy bear??
On a slightly related note; I've always wondered if Karl chills out in a comfortable velvet pyjamas or something when he's away from the "office". I refuse to believe he just gets out of bed and puts that stuffy shirt on. I have trouble breathing just looking at it.
Or does breathing make you fat as well?
mini-me.
I don't have $1400, but, if I did, I would rather have a
THEO teddy bear...
[Didn't you know? *ALL* Teddy bears are Theodores. Except for the ones which are actually Edwards. We don't talk about them. - Ed.]
Kinda looks like the Secret Service. Somebody send one to Obama!
Does the bear come with a little hand fan?
No?
Then it is NOT a Karl Lagerfeld bear. :)
@Wiener - Lagerfeld spends a least half of of his days lounging on his bed reading magazines and drawing. http://nymag.com/fashion/06/spring/15746/
The reason he wears puffy shirts with high collars is that although he lost half of his weight in order to fit into Dior Homme jackets, he has to hide the resultant excess fold of skin (before that he used a fan to hide his double chin whenever in public). The other reason is most people in his immediately family lived past 90, and he wanted to do that too, in style.
And the reason he always wear gloves is that when he's young his mother told him he has ugly hands.
Definitely a weirdo, but an extremely accomplished craftsman and fascinating person.
How cute! I love teddy bears. Not 1400 cute, mind you. I'd expect a real live teddy bear at that price.
i love it. i think it is such a cute photo, who would have though i teddy bear would be so vogue.
I'm with Totalee Puppy - Bring on the Theo bear!
How is it that no one has said Matchingks yet! That's the best part about the post!
Fee-irce!
And oh so prosh!
I dunno who this person is, and I would rather DIE than read "sheep" magazines like Vogue *shudders*. I'm too busy designing my own clothes and jewellary to care what someone else is doing, I don't even own a TV.
The bear looks more like a meercat or ferret. I thought it was a taxidermied dead ferret at first.
Um, why is the bear $1400? Is it made of real fur? Not cute.
From the look of Lagerfeld's hair, he's partially plush already!
feh.
That bear is fat. They really can't be sending him out to places like Nieman Marcus with all that chubs. Jeezee, didn't Karl teach the bear anything?
I must say, I never imagined you and Perez Hilton would be reporting the same news!
[raised eyebrow]
For that price, I'd expect a 6' tall, 6' wide, velvet teddy bear that I can use as a MATRESS.
I've seen cuter teddy bears than this one, but if the money's going to a good cause then it's all good.
I used to read Perez Hilton every day, and soon I just became disgusted with him. He has so much power and he uses it to be really hateful to women! I can't stress enough how damaging I think he is to young people.
Dunno about the $1,400, but the bear *is* totally cute, and Mr. Lagerfield must have a sense of humor to (a) have himself immortalized in a small, cuddly stuffed animal, and (b) pose with said small, cuddly stuffed animal.
I, for one, find the whole thing very amusing and totally cute, in a stuffy/stuffed, self-absorbed, self-parody, post-ironic, Vogue-ish fashion, of course...
[OK to be honest, I'm completely bewildered now, but this *sounds* good to me - Ed.]
Gravyboat: "Um, why is the bear $1400? Is it made of real fur? Not cute."
I just love how speculative comments devolve into "OMG!1 Teddies are real animal fur!!1 Noooooo!"
[Yeah, seriously. Anyway, it's a limited-edition collectible... - Ed.]
Obviously, $1400 isn't aimed at you or I, it's aimed at all of those people who make that much in an hour, and spend that much on one shopping trip. Now, a bear that gives you $1,400 on the other hand...mine mine mine!
[I've got a sweater from Ireland that's made of real animal fur (wool)... - Ed.]
[Actually, my grandma had a real *mohair* teddy bear. - Ed.]
[OK, I think this comment now holds the record for the most embedded Editor notes, congratulations! Whee!! - Ed.]
I think it's also fantastic that Lagerfeld would do this...a lot of people in fashion (just read the NY Mag article, oy) take themselves so seriously, take what they do so seriously because it seems to be filled with pressure to do things right, and to be evocative. Which is wonderful in some ways, but also puts much pressure on people to be a certain way, to behave a certain way...
It's great that Lagerfeld would have his image in this way, because he's daring to have a little bit of whimsy put into his life that so far, has been full of stunning works of art and lots and lots and lots of white shirts.
My favorite quote from the NyMag article.
“I’m not very interested in fashion,” says [Chuck] Close, surveying the crowd. He sighs. “This event is making me want to start smoking again.”