iLagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld, a "paper freak" who does not use email, and has a personal library of some 300,000 books, owns four iPhones and several iPads which he uses as diaries and sketchbooks.

"I use it [iPad] mostly for sketching. I'm very good at it. I discovered a technique. It's like engraving. Really not bad. There is no Photoshop. You have to know how to sketch. It's not something done with the help of computers. I hate computer sketches because they're all the same. They have no personality. If you want to see how it works... Voila! [Click.] This is the brush. [Click.] This is how thick you want the line. [Click.] And then here are the colours. [Click.] You want red, maybe? [Click.] He sketches a line with his fingernail ... Unbelievable, no? It's better with the special pen and I'm not going to keep it because it's nothing. And so then you do this. [Click.] And this. [Click.] And it disappears. I have iPads in every room ..." (Karl Lagerfeld talks to Susannah Frankel; Article published in the Independent, November 5, 2011)