I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

— Karl Lagerfeld

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

— Karl Lagerfeld

I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

— Karl Lagerfeld

I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

— Karl Lagerfeld

I'm very down to Earth, I'm just not from this Earth.

— Karl Lagerfeld

I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.

— Karl Lagerfeld

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.

— 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.

— 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.

— Karl Lagerfeld

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. Furthermore, I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me, it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.

— Karl Lagerfeld