Karl Lagerfeld

“I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.”

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

“I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind.”

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

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

“I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.”

“No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and...”

“Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.”

“There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.”

“I like the language in Proust but not the context.”

“Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'”

“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'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.”

“My hair is not really white; it's kind of grayish, and I don't like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always cle...”

“Mostly I stay at home from the morning until 5 P.M., and I only go out for fittings and shoots because I work at home. I like to be alone.”

“I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later o...”

“I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.”

“I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!”

“I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.”

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