Fairy Tale by Karl Lagerfeld | Nothing Personal by Matt Black

My growing numbers of friends around the world say ‘I’ve never seen anything like Anne of Carversville, Anne. I LOVE it!!!!! There is no explanation for how a young man in Sri Lanka and young woman in Mauritus connected with me today, but this happens all the time.

I understand a fashion editor in London writing me yesterday, but today’s two are the friends that surprise me.

Personally, I think people of every age like the unorthodoxy of my little ‘feminist design manifesto’ as the photographers call it.  My entire career is one of connecting pieces of life puzzles in unusual ways.

‘You make me think, Anne,’ they write — as if I’m some sexy school marm.

‘The Tale of a Fairy’ vs ‘Nothing Personal’

Last night I went to bed with all 30 minutes of Karl Lagerfeld’s new film ‘The Tale of a Fairy’. Speaking about the film, Karl commented: ‘Some people may be shocked, it is a movie about an ill-advised use of money which begins with violence and ends with feeling.’

Like any good Hollywood director, Lagerfeld took every sexual innuendo in the film and compressed in in the 90-second trailer. Trust me — you saw it all, and there is NOTHING shocking in the movie.

I would never watch a Karl Lagerfeld film expecting to see any exploration of sexuality or raw human emotion, because the designer is the sponsor of fashion monasticism, a stilettos-not-sex movement built on intellect and friendship.

For me Lagerfeld’s Magnum ice cream videos are a bust, but I did like the Hogan film — also with Baptiste and Magdalena Frackowiack. It was the first time I saw Lagerfeld deal with real human emotion that resonated as real to me, rather than Karl directing lives according to his bible of how people should behave.

‘The Tale of a Fairy’ by Karl Lagerfeld

Last night my silver screen, digesting all 30 minutes of ‘The Tale of a Fairy’, waiting for the promised feeling.

Technically there was some, and the sets were beautiful if artifice, which one expects. But when the screen went blank, I was stupified — shaking the laptop. ‘That’s it?’

What would I write about ‘The Tale of a Fairy’ I wondered. The answer is nothing more, because I just watched ‘Nothing Personal’ featuring Paz de la Huerta and Christopher Backus in a film by Matt Black.

‘Nothing Personal’ by Matt Black

This brilliant, true gem of a short is VERY sexy but manages to speak directly about the world of today’s fashion world, models, sexuality and self-identity, human relations and also us — the voyeurs who take it all in.

Watch both films, drink a bottle of coconut juice — with or without vodka —  and call me in the morning. Love, Anne

‘Nothing Personal’ via Fashion Copious