Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Otto Lagerfeldis a German fashion designer, artist, and photographer based in Paris. He is the head designer and creative director of the fashion house Chanel as well as the Italian house Fendi and his own fashion label. Over the decades, he has collaborated on a variety of fashion and art-related projects. He is well recognized around the world for his trademark white hair, black glasses, and high starched collars...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth10 September 1933
CityHamburg, Germany
CountryGermany
I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.
I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.
The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!
If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois.
Fur is not murder, but it is quite expensive.
I don't know Heidi Klum. She was never known in France. Claudia Schiffer also doesn't know who she is.
They are this horrible thing where you are distorted. The chin is too big, the head is too small. No, this is electronic masturbation.
What I do Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be, could be, what it had been to something else.
Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.
You cannot fight against it. There's a price you have to pay for fame, and people who don't want to pay that price can get in trouble. I accepted the idea of celebrity because of a French expression: 'You cannot have the butter and the money for the butter.'
At my age, I don’t need to be a sexy bundle of muscles, thank you very much.
Beauty—or the desire to be beautiful—is in itself a dangerous motivation. Someone (I forgot who) once said, ‘Does the person who loves someone for their beauty really love them?’ So don’t focus on beauty ... a respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul. It is the sum of our experiences that makes us interesting, and having been through a time in your life in which you were in a bad place (or what you perceived as a bad place) physically, can be useful. It can even be necessary.
It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.