Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

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Karl Lagerfeld

Profession : Designer

Birth : September 10, 1938

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.

Karl Lagerfeld

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

Karl Lagerfeld

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

Karl Lagerfeld

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

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 never look at my watch when I'm sketching!

Karl Lagerfeld

Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.

Karl Lagerfeld

Mostly I stay at home from the morning until 5 P.M., and I only go out for fittings and shoots because I work at home. I like to be alone.

Karl Lagerfeld

T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.

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I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

Karl Lagerfeld

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

Karl Lagerfeld

Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.

Karl Lagerfeld

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

Karl Lagerfeld

I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

Karl Lagerfeld

Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

Karl Lagerfeld

You cannot be creative with people around you.

Karl Lagerfeld

I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.

Karl Lagerfeld

I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

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Everyone wants to know and hopes I retire so they can get the jobs. But my contracts with Fendi and Chanel are lifelong.

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