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
Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed!
I’m like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road. I’m here for two days in New York; I leave in the morning early. I come back for Anna Wintour’s party at the Met, then again at the end of May for a prize I get from the Gordon Parks Foundation.
Of course there are some evening dresses that you cannot wear in daylight because it would be ridiculous, but there is a kind of dressy touch for daywear, too, ... And everything, it's easy. There's no barrier between dressy, day and sports. It's feminine 24 hours a day.
No, I have someone who comes to the house and washes it, puts in the dry shampoo, and takes care if it because I have no time.
I like chocolate. I don’t eat it, but I like the smell of it. People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose. I would love to have a perfume based on chocolate.
When I was very young, at the beginning my business was to work more than the others to show them their pointlessness.
I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long.
If someone gives me a to-do list, I say 'thank you, this is nice.' One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.
It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.
You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?
The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.
I'm rather pro-prostitution, I admire people who do it. It can't be much fun. Thank goodness for it. People need relief or they become murderers.
I lost 200lb to wear suits by Hedi Slimane