Quotes by Karl Lagerfeld

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

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.

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.

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 - Its like hair color. Its nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. Its not a subject. This was a very healthy attitude.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. Its for children and families. Not for people like me.

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.

Im all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

Im not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

No one wants to see curvy women.

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

I think its horrible that people have to be told. Dont smoke! Everybody knows its 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 dont know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

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.

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, its OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. Im kind of fascist with myself, you know. Theres no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

Who buys French cars? Not me.

There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - dont want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.

“Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her”

“Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive”

“Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests”