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Lagerfeld: Russian Men 'Ugly'

11:46 08/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 8 (RIA Novosti)

German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has branded Russian men as ugly, Greeks as corrupt and Queen Elizabeth as being a more smiley version of her grandmother Queen Victoria, in a column he wrote as guest editor-in-chief of Tuesday's edition of Metro, a global newspaper.

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