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Karl Lagerfeld, who was rumored to dress Melania Trump for the inauguration, doesn’t mix fashion and politics.

“Fashion people are fashion, they are not politics,” he tells WSJ Magazine’s March issue. Referring to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, he said, “Maybe her clothes are horrible, but she is not in fashion, hmm?”

The designer reveals he “loved Michelle Obama,” and “Mrs. Trump is a very nice woman and pretty handsome. Good body, no? And this Ivanka is quite cute, no?”

He says, “I knew [Donald] Trump before, when he was not in politics. I’m not American, but he’s a democratically elected president … so people have to deal with it.”