Silver-maned fashion demigod, Karl Lagerfeld, is to make an appearance in Grand Theft Auto IV as one of the game’s disc jockeys. Er, okay, that’s cool. We think…

Actually, as Kotaku.com reminds us, Lagerfeld’s inclusion in the game is not quite as nonsensical as it first seems – the flamboyant fella famously owns more than 70 Ipods and has a truly behemothic music collection comprising more than 60,000 CDs. Suffice to say he likes a nice tune!

For Lagerfeld himself, though, his in-game appearance is more than an opportunity to blow the dust off a few of his favourite disco 12"s:

“They are the games of our times. Those games in a way changed the world.... They had written a politically incorrect dialogue... I loved it, (particularly) in a time when everybody wants to be so politically correct when they talk... I prefer to be in a video than to play with it. I would love to be a very nasty, politically incorrect character,” he says, darkly.

Karl Lagerfeld is 75.