Karl Lagerfeld

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

Who buys French cars? Not me.

I have no human feelings.

One is never over dressed or underdressed with a little black dress.

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

I hardly went to school.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

No one wants to see curvy women.

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

I love to watch times change!

The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.

T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.

I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

Personality begins where comparison ends.

We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

I am a fashion person and fashion is not only about clothes its about all kinds of change.

Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It's like hunger and thirst you need them both.

I do my job like I breathe.

One is never over dressed or under dressed with a Little Black Dress.

Dont sacrifice yourself too much because if you sacrifice too much theres nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you

I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.

I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

I eat next to nothing.

I'm not a fortune-teller.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

I'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.

I never played with anything like toys.

Sunglasses are like eyeshadow, they make everything look younger and prettier.

The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - it’s okay for clothes not that great for people.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.

I never fall in love.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

I hate the past - especially my own past.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

I'm totally myself.

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

I don't do meetings.

Don't sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there's nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.

The way I talk is bizarre.

Personally, I don't wear fur.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

My mother did not like children.

I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.

Some people would like me to be round again.

I can do whatever I want.

Black and white always looks modern whatever that word means.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It's like hunger and thirst “ you need them both.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive.

The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what's needed by nature, and what's needed is to bring something new.

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know.

I'm an iPod person.

I don't want to be on the Internet.

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

What I love best in life is new starts.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.