Karl Lagerfeld

“I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.”

“I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.”

“Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.”

“Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.”

“I'm very down to Earth, I'm just not from this Earth.”

“If you're in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.”

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

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

“Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.”

“Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.”

“I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.”

“I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.”

“I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!”

“Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.”

“Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.”

“For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.”

“I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.”

“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.”

“I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.”

“The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine”