Karl Lagerfeld

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

“Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Is there a way to design a room in my house where I float around? I would quite enjoy that. It's nuts.”

“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.”

“Fantasy is often better than reality. It’s much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.”

“There is no marriage, yet, for human beings and animals… I never thought that I would fall in love like this with a cat.”

“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.”

“Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.”

“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.”

“Mostly I stay at home from the morning until 5 P.M., and I only go out for fittings and shoots because I work at home. I like to be alone.”

“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.”

“Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.”

“Mostly I stay at home from the morning until 5 P.M., and I only go out for fittings and shoots because I work at home. I like to be alone.”

“Mostly I stay at home from the morning until 5 P.M., and I only go out for fittings and shoots because I work at home. I like to be alone.”

“In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.”

“Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.”

“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.”