Quotes from Karl Lagerfeld

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

I don't do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.

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

I don't eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.

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.

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

What I love best in life is new starts.

I love to watch times change!

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

I don't like standard beauty — there is no beauty without strangeness.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

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.

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

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

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 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.

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.

It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

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

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

No one wants to see curvy women.