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
What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second. – 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 don’t like standard beauty — there is no beauty without strangeness. – Karl Lagerfeld
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object. – Roland Barthes
Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations. – P. J. ORourke