KARL LAGERFELD

People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.

I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

I never played with anything like toys.

I love to watch times change!

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

I'm totally myself.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.

I can do whatever I want.

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

Some people would like me to be round again.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.