I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it. – Karl Lagerfeld
What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second. – Karl Lagerfeld
But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it. – Karl Lagerfeld
I’ve only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They’re all I need, and the rest I can do without. – Karl Lagerfeld
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. – Karl Lagerfeld
I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped. – Karl Lagerfeld
A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out. – Karl Lagerfeld
I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive. – Karl Lagerfeld
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
Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary. – Karl Lagerfeld
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. – Karl Lagerfeld
People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That’s what I hate most. I think it’s very demode. – Karl Lagerfeld
The story with anorexic girls – nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion. – Karl Lagerfeld