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
The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine
Virgos are very faithful. I'm a faithful friend. I'm a faithful lover.
It’s up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible. It’s a question of will and discipline.
When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.
You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.
A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That's what you need to make a legend survive.
I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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.
The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
During the golden age of movie stars, there were plenty of actresses who were deemed unattractive at the start of their careers, but struggled and finally appeared more beautiful and more iconic. Sometimes that idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.