"When I was four years old, I asked my mother to hire a valet for me as a birthday present. I wanted my clothes to be prepared and I could wear whatever I wanted at any time of the day. Since I was ten years old, I've been wearing hats, high collars and ties. I've never played with other kids. I read books and painted day and night."

Karl Lagerfeld in an interview with Andre Leon Telly, 1978.

"It wasn't what everyone thinks," Karl Lagerfeld said of his date of birth. According to official data, he was born on September 10, 1933, but Lagerfeld himself claimed that his date of birth was between 1933 and 1938.