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
What I do Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be, could be, what it had been to something else.
I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
We started a shape and we have to continue it also in shoes, in jewelry in everything, because things have to be current.
I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.
People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
I don't want to be on the Internet.
I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.
I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.
My opinion can be completely different after a show.
There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.
Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
I'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.