He was a bully, but we’ll miss Karl Lagerfeld’s brilliance — theguardian.com

Fashion is supposed to be, among other things, about taste. But good taste can only take a person so far. As Diana Vreeland had it: “Vulgarity is a very important ingredient in life.” Vreeland, who edited American Vogue in the Sixties, believed in vulgarity almost as passionately as she believed in red and pink and well-polished shoes. Without it, one might easily die of boredom: “A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste …. No taste is what I’m against.”

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