"I really take the time to choose my models: I don't think one should ever be a model-guzzler. One must give the model a spirit."
--Karl Lagerfeld on the importance of selecting models and not "guzzling" them. That sounds dirty. Chanel.com via Vogue UK.
"The first [mistake] was when she said 'Not one man I have spoken to likes a woman in mini skirts'. I think no one dared to tell this 86-year-old lady
"Karl Lagerfeld is like the Einstein of high fashion." --Abbey Lee Kershaw on working with Lagerfeld on the 2011 Pirelli calendar in this making-of
"It was at a big party in Coco’s apartments in Paris. I was drunk and got lost in the building. I wandered into an attic room and Karl was there. I go
"Today nobody’s really found the real story… I don’t have too much consideration for the poor people who try to write that book...it’s interesting that people in fact are lazy. If they worked hard they would find interesting things. Nobody finds it! So I’m in a position to say ‘Fuck you, you’re all lazy pigs.’ And I certainly won’t help them!”