Karl Lagerfeld

“The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.”

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

“I don't take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.”

“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.”

“Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.”

“When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Som...”

“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.”

“Who buys French cars? Not me.”

“I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.”

“I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.”

“Everyone wants to know and hopes I retire so they can get the jobs. But my contracts with Fendi and Chanel are lifelong.”

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

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

“I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.”

“Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.”

“There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - don't want protection for the others. The legal system should prote...”

“No one wants to see curvy women.”

“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 differentl...”

“Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.”

“I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.”