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 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.
I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
Normal people think I'm insane.
Every coat is different and in every kind of material,
Filming the girl was a really nasty trick,
My family is from there. I thought it was my moment in time to show a little of what this part of Europe is all about -- the poetry, the inspiration, the art and the spirit and the feeling of that area.
Maybe there's a little '70s touch, ... One has to find something,
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.