Karl Lagerfeld Considers Himself ‘A Cocktail’
Karl Lagerfeld may have arrived decidedly late to the International Herald Tribune’s 10th Annual Luxury Conference in London on Tuesday, but he certainly made his time there worthwhile. In the less than 30 minutes he spent on stage with Suzy Menkes, Lagerfeld offered up a veritable bounty of bon mots — our favorites of which we’ve compiled here.
On who the real Karl Lagerfeld is: “I am a cocktail.”
On the hierarchy at Chanel: “Nobody tells me what to do at Chanel… I am there to be used. I like to be used, but only in the way I think I should be used.”
On movies about Chanel: “I don’t like the movies about Coco Chanel.”
On couture: “Buying couture is no worse than collecting expensive cars. People are rich enough to buy them. Others make a living from that. I have no fake guilt about couture.”
On the business of fashion: “The inexpensive and the very expensive has more future in this economy than anything in between.”
On shape: “The stick thin silhouette is over.”
And finally, on the past: “I don’t want to hear about the past… I am only interested in now.”
Which might explain why just over a year ago, he declared, “No one wants to see curvy women. You’ve got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying that thin models are ugly.”
Clearly, he’s a genius. Or a robot.
[via Fashionologie, Grazia.]
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