Karl Lagerfeld

Designer

308 Quotes

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.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

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.

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.

100 percent a huge fan of Beyonce. If I see her, I will faint. I've met her before. I just get really nervous and quiet - I just shut up and bow down.

My opinion can be completely different after a show.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

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

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

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.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

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

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

I admire people who destroy themselves.

People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

I do my job like I breathe.

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

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

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.