I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job. - Karl Lagerfeld

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

"People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory."

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

"I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern."

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