Karl Lagerfeld

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them

The French say you get hungry when you__e eating, and I get inspired when I__ working. It__ my engine

Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore _ and then you get something out of her

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive

There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - don't want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.

Who buys French cars? Not me.

I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change

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

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

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.

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.

I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

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

No one wants to see curvy women.

I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

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.