3 December 2020 Karl Lagerfeld I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I’m not interested in. So, as far as I’m concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don’t know. When I know, I don’t care because I knew how it was.
3 December 2020 Karl Lagerfeld It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.
3 December 2020 Karl Lagerfeld I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
3 December 2020 Karl Lagerfeld I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
3 December 2020 Karl Lagerfeld I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
3 December 2020 Karl Lagerfeld But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
3 December 2020 Karl Lagerfeld I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it’s OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
3 December 2020 Karl Lagerfeld What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
3 December 2020 Karl Lagerfeld Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
3 December 2020 Karl Lagerfeld There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France – I don’t know about England – that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
3 December 2020 Karl Lagerfeld I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.
3 December 2020 Karl Lagerfeld You have to like the present if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
3 December 2020 Karl Lagerfeld I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
