Quotes by 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.”

“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.”

“Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.”

“What I love best in life is new starts.”

“I love to watch times change!”

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

“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.”

“It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.”

“I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.”

“You have to like the present if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.”

“I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.”

“There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.”

“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.”

“I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.”

“The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.”

“What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.”

“Music is part of the life of fashion, too.”

“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 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.”

“No one wants to see curvy women.”

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