"If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body"
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Leave it to Karl Lagerfeld to turn a condiment into a moral failing. "If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body" isn’t nutrition advice so much as a miniature manifesto of control: the designer’s lifelong project of treating the body as a surface to be disciplined, edited, and ultimately styled. Sauces stand in for everything he distrusted - excess, softness, surrender. They’re the unnecessary flourish that makes food pleasurable, and that’s precisely the point: pleasure is framed as a threat.
The line works because it’s absurdly overstated, almost puritanical, but delivered with the cool certainty of someone used to dictating taste. Lagerfeld’s world ran on silhouettes and restraint; “danger” isn’t about toxins, it’s about losing the sharp outline. In that logic, the body is a garment rack, and anything that blurs its lines becomes an enemy. Sauces aren’t calories, they’re chaos.
Context matters. Lagerfeld famously publicized extreme weight loss and spoke bluntly - sometimes cruelly - about bodies in a culture that rewards bluntness when it comes from power. By picking sauces, he’s not attacking junk food in the obvious way; he’s targeting the hidden extras, the small indulgences people don’t count. It’s lifestyle ideology disguised as a quirky aside: the real luxury isn’t richness, it’s denial performed with swagger.
The line works because it’s absurdly overstated, almost puritanical, but delivered with the cool certainty of someone used to dictating taste. Lagerfeld’s world ran on silhouettes and restraint; “danger” isn’t about toxins, it’s about losing the sharp outline. In that logic, the body is a garment rack, and anything that blurs its lines becomes an enemy. Sauces aren’t calories, they’re chaos.
Context matters. Lagerfeld famously publicized extreme weight loss and spoke bluntly - sometimes cruelly - about bodies in a culture that rewards bluntness when it comes from power. By picking sauces, he’s not attacking junk food in the obvious way; he’s targeting the hidden extras, the small indulgences people don’t count. It’s lifestyle ideology disguised as a quirky aside: the real luxury isn’t richness, it’s denial performed with swagger.
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