Karl Lagerfeld

"I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job."

"A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul"

"Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite."

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

"Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you."

"I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth."

"For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it."

"Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality."

"Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests"

"When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop."

"I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra?"

"The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman."

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

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

"Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books."

"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."

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

"We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world."

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

"The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine"