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'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.
A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.
I'm a working-class person, working with class.
Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.
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.