Karl Lagerfeld

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Stuff your brain with knowledge."

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

"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?"

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

"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."

"Stuff your brain with knowledge."

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

"For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them"

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

"Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her"

"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."

"Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity."

"Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently"

"The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children."