Karl Lagerfeld

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag.

Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. 'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. I can do what I want in all kinds of areas. The expenses are not expenses. I would be stupid to stop that. Work is making a living out of being bored.

Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.

It’s up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible. _x000D_ It’s a question of will and discipline.

What I do Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be, could be, what it had been to something else.

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

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.

Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.

I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.

What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before.

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.

These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.