Karl Lagerfeld
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.Collection: Morning
Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.Collection: Christmas
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. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.Collection: Attitude
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 protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.Collection: Legal
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.Collection: Beauty
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.Collection: Imagination
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.Collection: Teacher
The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.Collection: Music
I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.Collection: Diet
No one wants to see curvy women.Collection: Women
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.Collection: Future
I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.Collection: Teacher
Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.Collection: Diet
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.Collection: Funny
People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
No, I never thought I would like cats.
I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
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.
There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.
I'm totally myself.
Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.
I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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.
If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.
My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.
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 this is the most important.
No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.
Some people would like me to be round again.
Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
I never played with anything like toys.
I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
Personally, I don't wear fur.
T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.
I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.
Who buys French cars? Not me.
Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.
I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.
I can do whatever I want.
I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.
I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.