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
It's the revival of color, movement, liberty. It's fashion with less intellectual pretension. It's very down-to-earth and not at all up-to-the-moon.
Forget about your folklore. I can take a few inspirations, but I can certainly not do an homage. That's not my trip. I'm a fashion vampire. I take what I need and I leave the rest.
My sisters were sent away because my mother thought they were boring. I was not boring.
I have no idea of the future -- never, ever. That's what I like about fashion. It's paradise now.
T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.
Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion.
Fashion is what people wear not only what you see on the Runway
The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.
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.
Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!
Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.
It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.
I'm rather pro-prostitution, I admire people who do it. It can't be much fun. Thank goodness for it. People need relief or they become murderers.