Karl Lagerfeld

You cannot fight against it. There's a price you have to pay for fame, and people who don't want to pay that price can get in trouble. I accepted the idea of celebrity because of a French expression: 'You cannot have the butter and the money for the butter.'

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the lip operations. There are people who have it done and I don't recognise them afterwards. They look like they flew through the windscreen during a car accident and were patched up badly afterwards.

Fashion designers are dictators of taste.

I lost 200lb to wear suits by Hedi Slimane

When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.

Trendy is the last stage before tacky.

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

There will never be a chanel collection without black

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them.

I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes - it's about all kinds of change