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Quotes by

Karl Lagerfeld

The reason American cars dont sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. Thats why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire. – Karl Lagerfeld

Im not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed. – Karl Lagerfeld

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. Im kind of fascist with myself, you know. Theres no discussion. There is an order. You follow it. – Karl Lagerfeld

I think its horrible that people have to be told. Dont smoke! Everybody knows its bad for the health. But they have to forbid it. – Karl Lagerfeld

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France – I dont know about England – that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health. – Karl Lagerfeld

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something Im not interested in. So, as far as Im concerned, I like only the past of things and people I dont know. When I know, I dont care because I knew how it was. – Karl Lagerfeld

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, its OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink. – Karl Lagerfeld

Its only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that Im skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think Im big, when I was big, I never thought about it. – Karl Lagerfeld

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – Its like hair color. Its nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. Its not a subject. This was a very healthy attitude. – Karl Lagerfeld

No one wants to see curvy women. – Karl Lagerfeld

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. – Karl Lagerfeld

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. – Karl Lagerfeld

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second. – Karl Lagerfeld

Music is part of the life of fashion, too. – Karl Lagerfeld

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music. – Karl Lagerfeld

You have to like the present if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future. – Karl Lagerfeld

I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed. – Karl Lagerfeld

I love to watch times change! – Karl Lagerfeld

What I love best in life is new starts. – Karl Lagerfeld

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. – Karl Lagerfeld