Pssssst. Have you heard? Karl Lagerfeld has a tinsy crush on male supermodel Brad Kroenig. The former University of Miami soccer player has served as resident muse for the Chanel designer for quite some time now.

The two have been connected at the hip for so long, in fact, that Lagerfeld compiled five years of photos he had taken of Kroenig into a book aptly named: Metamorphoses of an American, A Cycle of Youth 2003–2008.

On watching his buddy transform into a fine chiseled-bodied man, the designer tells Vanity Fair: "I thought it would be interesting to follow the physical evolution of someone. Without him knowing it, he has an unbelievable range. It's a kind of gift. He knows nothing about these things. It's fun for somebody to skate on these images and interpretations without being an actor-the characters, the situations, the attitudes, while at the same time to stay a completely modern all-American."

Oh, Karl. We find him very "interesting," too. But not even Brad could outshine Karl's quote on being named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People: "I don't know why they did that. I have never done anything for humanity."