For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it. - Karl Lagerfeld

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

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

"Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step."

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

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