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
Normal people think I'm insane.
I hate the word 'cheap'. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
I didn't play with other children.
Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
People are very nice to me, even though I'm known for saying rude things.
A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That's what you need to make a legend survive.
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 not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
I like newspapers. Maybe the iPad is very modern and everything, and I'm not against it, but I like the physical contact. And the physical contact of metal and glass is not as sensuous as paper.
I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
We started a shape and we have to continue it also in shoes, in jewelry in everything, because things have to be current.
Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.