"No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important"
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The insistence on "no pills" is doing quiet PR. It preempts the gossip ecosystem that follows any dramatic transformation: shortcuts, scandals, chemical crutches. Lagerfeld positions himself as an old-school craftsman of the self, the same kind of person who would rather cut and tailor than glue and fake. Even the meal schedule has a designer's precision: boundaries, structure, no stray threads.
Then comes the sleep, delivered with strange reverence. Seven hours, exact, repeated, narrated as a ritual: bed, sleep, wake. He doesn't say he "tries" or "aims" - he states it like a production schedule. That final line, "this is the most important", lands as the subtextual tell: control isn't only about thinness; it's about maintaining an engine. To keep making, appearing, deciding, commanding a brand that is also a person.
In context, it reads like a manifesto from an era when fashion leaders were expected to be mythic and unbreakable. Lagerfeld turns the banal mechanics of eating and sleeping into a performance of sovereignty: the body as a managed studio, not a messy home.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Lagerfeld, Karl. (2026, January 18). No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/no-and-i-never-ever-eat-in-between-the-meals-i-23279/
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Lagerfeld, Karl. "No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/no-and-i-never-ever-eat-in-between-the-meals-i-23279/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/no-and-i-never-ever-eat-in-between-the-meals-i-23279/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
