For me, New York is comfortable, not strange. And I don't feel like a stranger. I have more friends in New York than Paris.
Karl LagerfeldI never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.
Karl LagerfeldI am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.
Karl LagerfeldKate Middleton has a nice silhouette and she is the right girl for that boy. I like that kind of woman, I like romantic beauties. On the other hand, her sister struggles. I don't like the sister's face. She should only show her back.
Karl LagerfeldI don't understand the change of hair...Frankly, the fringe was a bad idea. It's not good.
Karl LagerfeldThese are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.
Karl LagerfeldI get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
Karl LagerfeldWhen 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.
Karl LagerfeldI'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
Karl LagerfeldWhen I wake up I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie! That's why I sleep alone. But the funny thing is that I'm very impeccable and clean before I go to bed. It's just like right before I'm going out.
Karl LagerfeldMy life is based on change. What I say is OK for the next ten minutes, then I change my mind.
Karl LagerfeldI imagine the world from my window ... Traveling, I think it's a nightmare today. The airports and things the people in the street with the selfies ... I like to stay at home and read.
Karl LagerfeldBling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'
Karl LagerfeldThe minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - itโs okay for clothes not that great for people
Karl LagerfeldYes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.
Karl LagerfeldDress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women--forget about that. Forget about that. It's a very bad way of thinking.
Karl LagerfeldWe need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. Itโs like hunger and thirst โ you need them both.
Karl LagerfeldBeauty 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.
Karl LagerfeldI forget nothing and then, one day, there will be revenge. Innocence isn't exactly everywhere. But I will say innocence also takes you far in photography.
Karl LagerfeldI'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.
Karl LagerfeldI don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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