A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out. Karl Lagerfeld More Quotes by Karl Lagerfeld More Quotes From Karl Lagerfeld I don't even want to have things associated with my name on the internet - it's very dangerous. Karl Lagerfeld internetnameswant People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality. Karl Lagerfeld realitypeoplethinking I think it's very important what young people see in pictures or on TV or in magazines. Drugs, violence, anorexia. All of the things that I absolutely do not reference in my photos. Karl Lagerfeld anorexiapeoplethinking I don't have prejudices. I'm against taboos. But of course there are some things I'll never touch - because as a mom, there are things one doesn't want their children to be around. Karl Lagerfeld prejudicemomchildren When I was a child, my mother always told me that you could wake up in the middle of the night and be deathly sick, so you always have to be impeccable. I laugh about it now, but I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door. Karl Lagerfeld mothernightchildren When I wake up I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie! That's why I sleep alone. But the funny thing is that I'm very impeccable and clean before I go to bed. It's just like right before I'm going out. Karl Lagerfeld funny-thingsbedsleep What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones... You can remember every line to their songs. But today, how often do you remember any of the lines to songs? I mean, I know that one of the Lily Allen's last albums is called It's Not Me, It's You. But I don't know how the songs go. Karl Lagerfeld rollingsongmean I see things in the middle of the night. I draw them on paper and I don't even think about it. I'm like a machine in a way - just made of some electronic stuff. Vaguely digital. Karl Lagerfeld machinesnightthinking Women need to be ready to defend themselves ... in a world that is not that sweet, it's not the bourgeois cocktail hat, the ladylike hat, this is another kind of hat, I wouldn't say aggressive, but more protective. Karl Lagerfeld lifestyle Those pieces look more modern than other pieces of jewelry companies have, normally I don't take care of Chanel jewelry, but they asked me to do something special for this collection. Karl Lagerfeld entertainment When I started at Chanel, everybody told me 'Don't touch it, it is finished' and that amused me, it was like a challenge and it worked a 100 times better than I could have imagined. Karl Lagerfeld entertainment I never look at my watch when I'm sketching! Karl Lagerfeld watchneverlooksketching I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like. Karl Lagerfeld sketchlookyoubelieve I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading. Karl Lagerfeld my-lifechildhoodlifeschool I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything. Karl Lagerfeld sketchthreespeakschool I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed. Karl Lagerfeld dietgodrinkbed
