Quotes By Karl Lagerfeld

I didn't play with other children.

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

I can do whatever I want.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

I love to watch times change!

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

My mother did not like children.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

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 - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.

Who buys French cars? Not me.

No one wants to see curvy women.

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

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

I hardly went to school.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.

The way I talk is bizarre.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.

Some people would like me to be round again.

My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.