Quotes from Karl Lagerfeld

If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.

If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

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

I admire people who destroy themselves.

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.

I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.

I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

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.

Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.

My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

I do my job like I breathe — so if I can't breathe I'm in trouble.

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.

I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.

I have no human feelings.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.

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