I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomeno... - Karl Lagerfeld

"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."

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

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

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