We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world. - Karl Lagerfeld

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

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

"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?"