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Meryl Streep is out for blood. Days afterwards Chanel artistic administrator Karl Lagerfeld claimed Streep had backed out of cutting a Chanel dress at this year’s Oscars commemoration due to not actuality paid to abrasion it (“A ability actress, but cheapness also, no?” Lagerfeld opined), Streep is battlefront aback by accusing the artist of lying and abasing her. While Streep’s assembly ahead appear a account abstinent Lagerfeld’s claims and citation her claimed ethics, the afterward account comes beeline from the extra herself. “In advertence to Mr. Lagerfeld’s ‘statement,’ there is no ‘controversy’: Karl Lagerfeld, a arresting designer, defamed me, my stylist, and the illustrious artist whose dress I chose to wear, in an important industry publication,” Streep said. “That advertisement printed this defamation, unchecked. Subsequently, the adventure was best up globally, and continues, globally, to beat my actualization at the Oscars, on the break of my almanac breaking 20th nomination, and to concealment this account in the eyes of the media, my colleagues and the audience.”
And don’t apprehend this to be the aftermost time Streep — or alike Lagerfeld — talks about the matter. “I do not booty this lightly, and Mr. Lagerfeld’s all-encompassing ‘statement’ of affliction for this ‘controversy’ was not an apology,” she continued. “He lied, they printed the lie, and I am still waiting.” As Streep mentioned, she will be adulatory her 20th Oscar choice (!) this black for her assignment in the comedy-drama Florence Foster Jenkins.
Following Streep’s account issued on Saturday evening, Lagerfeld appear a new account of his own on Sunday to the Cut, formally answer to the actress. “Chanel affianced in conversations with Ms. Streep’s stylist, on her request, to architecture a dress for her to abrasion to the Academy Awards,” Lagerfeld explained. “After an breezy conversation, I blurred that Ms. Streep may accept called addition artist due to remuneration, which Ms. Streep’s aggregation has accepted is not the case. I affliction this altercation and ambition Ms. Streep able-bodied with her 20th Academy Award nomination.”
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