German fashion designer (1933- )
Normal people think I'm insane.
KARL LAGERFELD
"In the Now", The New Yorker, Mar. 19, 2007
Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion--it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.
KARL LAGERFELD
Vanity Fair, Feb. 1992
Those social networks, there's something sad about them. Is it because they don't have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don't understand it. It's like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.
KARL LAGERFELD
"Media People: Q&A With Karl Lagerfeld", Women's Wear Daily, Sep. 12, 2014
I do my job like I breathe, so if I can't breathe I'm in trouble!
KARL LAGERFELD
"In the Now", The New Yorker, Mar. 19, 2007
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.
KARL LAGERFELD
Vice Magazine, Feb. 28, 2010
I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.
KARL LAGERFELD
"In the Now", The New Yorker, Mar. 19, 2007
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.
KARL LAGERFELD
"Media People: Q&A With Karl Lagerfeld", Women's Wear Daily, Sep. 12, 2014
The most important piece of furniture in a house is the garbage can.
KARL LAGERFELD
"In the Now", The New Yorker, Mar. 19, 2007
I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.
KARL LAGERFELD
"In the Now", The New Yorker, Mar. 19, 2007
I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections.
KARL LAGERFELD
"Karl Lagerfeld on Diets, Sobriety, and Becoming a Nicer Person", New York Magazine, Nov. 7, 2013
People are very nice to me, even though I'm known for saying rude things.
KARL LAGERFELD
Huffington Post, May 28, 2013
If I was a woman in Russia I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly.
KARL LAGERFELD
"Karl Lagerfeld on Adele, the Greek crisis and M.I.A.'s middle finger", Metro