“It is that civilised humans must wear monochrome. In other words, it is the minimum etiquette of fashion that you should not disturb other people’s vision. It is wrong to think that standing out is a good thing.” - Yohji Yamamoto, on his fashion philosophy, to Prestige.

The May issue of Prestige Hong Kong has an interview with former ELLE editor Nina Garcia, while she was still at ELLE.

The interview really isn’t that interesting until the very end, when Garcia starts to talk about the high turnover in the fashion industry, sort of alluding to her own shaky position that she must have known about -

“The turnover is very quick. So people get even more insecure about their jobs and positions, the hierarchy. It’s silly! But you have to keep it in perspective. It’s only fashion.”

But the issue has an even more fun little snippet than Nina’s -

Some first-ever seen images from the upcoming Kate Moss for Agent Provocateur ads (more on that, in video form, later).

We can’t believe she’s supposed to look “virginal.”

“If I gain more than two or three pounds, like I have right now, I’m going to eat vegetables tonight. I don’t ever cut out vodka and tonics. My trick is that if I eat vegetables at night three or four days in a row, I quickly snap back to my ideal weight.” —Tom Ford to Prestige magazine

Karl Lagerfeld recently granted a cover story of himself to Hong Kong glossy Prestige.

Some choice quotes:

“When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, ‘It’s not the days that are old, it’s you that’s old.’ I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.”

“Love is a subject I don’t analyze publicly, love is only an interesting subject when it’s beyond. When it’s down to earth, it ceases to become interesting. It’s a very dangerous subject.”

“I hate all children.”

“In the old days there was luxury and no market. Today there is all market and no luxury.”

“I consider myself a kind of Ferrari, so I take care of myself.”

And after the writer, Stephen Short, questioned Karl about Vlada, whom Karl had been photographing at the beginning of the interview, Karl gave perhaps the most Karl-like sound bite of all:

“Yes, new Russian girls are like this. But this is a subject I won’t discuss. You know why? In France, there are a large percentage of young girls who are overweight and less than one percent are skinny. So let’s talk about the 25 percent who have a weight problem, or are overweight. We don’t need to discuss the less than one percent. Anorexia is nothing to do with fashion. These Russian girls are so young. Chinese ones are skinny, too, and bony. I don’t think it’s a subject to discuss. And in today’s world, many people take drugs, not only models, hmm? It’s an unnecessary subject. Let’s talk about the fat ones.”

Also of note: Karl gave Short one of the little action figures of himself as a gift.

We know some of this might be hard to believe, so we suggest reading the interview in full for yourselves.