Karl Lagerfeld

I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.

I don't look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I - personally, I'm not interested in my own past. I'm only interested in today - perhaps tomorrow.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea.

There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes.

Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.

Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.

My life is based on change. What I say is OK for the next ten minutes, then I change my mind.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

If I read too much or know too much it's not because I want to talk about it, it's only because it's interesting for me.

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.

I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.

Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility

I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.

When I was very young, at the beginning my business was to work more than the others to show them their pointlessness.

It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.

When I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: 'You shouldn't smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke.