Karl Lagerfeld never has holidays because they are for “people with nine to five jobs”.
The fashion designer loves his work, and never feels a need to take a break from it. He would hate to have a job where the only thing to look forward to was time off, and fully intends on working for the rest of his life.
“Holidays are for people who work in an office and have a nine to five job,” he said. “I don’t have this concept of life. That is my luxury – that I don’t have to think in terms of holidays and relaxing. I am always relaxed because the work conditions in my life are quite pleasant," he says.
“There’s this kind of image that a designer should be hysterical. We are not hysterical. The days of draping in the night, that is over, no one does it anymore.”
Karl says the word ‘routine’ fills him with “nightmares”. He enjoys making clothes but isn’t pretentious about what he does, explaining he finds it annoying when other designers refer to themselves as “artists”.
“I don’t want to be an artist,” he told the British edition of Vogue magazine. “I am a designer. I hate designers who tell me they are ‘artists’. Chanel never said that she was an artist.
“I am much more passionate that I used to be, because when you are young you have other priorities. Now I am more detached and more informed. I know more about the technical part of it. I like it better every day. As long as fashion likes me, I love fashion.”
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