Quotes from Karl Lagerfeld

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

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

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It's like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

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

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what's needed by nature, and what's needed is to bring something new.

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.

We create a product nobody needs but people want. You spend more for what you really want; some boring things you need: an ugly old car can wait, but if you have a new fashion item it cannot wait.

I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home.

I don't do meetings.

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

Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.

I care more about the people than about the company. That's why I don't want to own it. I don't want to run a business. People do it better than I do.

Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

They're my burka... I'm a little shortsighted, and people, when they're shortsighted, they remove their glasses and then they look like cute little dogs who want to be adopted.

People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality.

I don't have prejudices. I'm against taboos. But of course there are some things I'll never touch - because as a mom, there are things one doesn't want their children to be around.

I don't take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.