Karl Lagerfeld's Creepy Dakota Fanning Photoshoot



Vanity Fair continues in their charming tradition of astonishingly creepy photoshoots (Exaggerated cough suggesting feigned detachment), this time starring the ponytailed -- and pony tasting -- Karl Lagerfeld with our favorite L'il Mussolini, Dakota Fanning riding shotgun. As previously reported, Tom Ford himself -- who dallies in kissing up on mannequins -- had originally wanted to do the shoot. Lagerfeld did a just marginally less creepy job directing Fanning to look terrified at a realistic-looking stuffed wolf ("Good! Good! Be scared! Perfect! Perfect! Hold the pose!", interspersing English with the curt French, "D'accord."

As the site says, "Dakota Fanning is Hollywood's little princess, with a $3 million paycheck and dibs on every girl role in town. For the January 2007 issue of V.F., Karl Lagerfeld put the 12-year-old Charlotte's Web star in a fairy-tale perspective. Exclusive footage from the Lagerfeld photo shoot."

Charmed, I'm sure (Averted Gaze). We were particularly freaked out by Lagerfeld directing the "wolf" to attack a disturbingly overpoised Fanning, who looks to be 12 going on 47, with a mortgage and a Thalberg at the Academy Awards.

Reason #2,715 why the soul-killing job of Child Stardom is so California evil.