Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Otto Lagerfeldis a German fashion designer, artist, and photographer based in Paris. He is the head designer and creative director of the fashion house Chanel as well as the Italian house Fendi and his own fashion label. Over the decades, he has collaborated on a variety of fashion and art-related projects. He is well recognized around the world for his trademark white hair, black glasses, and high starched collars...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth10 September 1933
CityHamburg, Germany
CountryGermany
I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change
The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive
I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.
A book has to be easy to open and you don't have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.
Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.
I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy
Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty
I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.
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.
Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue