He may be the most quoted man in fashion, but that doesn't mean Karl Lagerfeld feels inclined to write a book any time soon. "No memoirs," the Kaiser stated at Tuesday's WWD CEO Summit at New York's Plaza Hotel. "I have nothing to say."

While that may be true, at least as far as the written word goes anyway, the legendary designer certainly had plenty to say on stage. From revealing the surprising locale of his next show (Dallas) to explaining how it feels to be marking his 30th anniversary at Chanel ("Some people say I'm a hired gun. Well, I'm very happy to be one."), Lagerfeld kept the bon mots coming and the assembled crowd — which included Anna Wintour, Carine Roitfeld, and Sarah Jessica Parker — hanging on his every word. Below, a few gems:

On career longevity: "Fashion is for people to wear and that has not changed."

On inspiration: "When I like something, I don't ask myself why. I just like it."

On couture today: "There are so many new worlds, and so much new money. We have more couture clients now than we did 20 years ago. Many of the rich people of the past are poor compared to the rich people of today, I'm sorry."

On his childhood ambitions: "I didn't even know one could make a business out of fashion. Back then it was called clothes."

On designers who complain about the workload: "You accept a job, you know the conditions. Don't play the victim."

On what irritates him most: "People who create complications in order to appear more professional."

On Paris in the '80s: "The '80s were very difficult. I prefer to forget about them."

On career setbacks: "Sometimes you go two steps back but that's a healthy thing. No one has a one-line career."

On his look: "You may think it's very distinct but to me it is normal."

On the potential of a retrospective: "I would never make a retrospective. I look forward, ahead, ahead. I don't keep any kind of archive even."

On his three steps to success: "What? Steps? Oh, there's a whole staircase."

All the bits fit to print here, in our daily news roundup.

• i-D Magazine's Terry Jones curated the latest Taschen release, Vivienne Westwood, which reflects on the designer's influence on British fashion over the last 30 years. [Fashionologie Inbox]
  

• Today marks Carolina Herrera's 74th birthday. [InStyle]
  

• ShoeDazzle has named Rachel Zoe its chief stylist. [WWD]
  

• Meanwhile, Savile Row tailor Gieves & Hawkes has tapped former Brioni artistic director Jason Basmajian to be its new creative director. [Vogue UK]
  

• Terry Richardson's latest campaign for Equinox was shot at the Stahl House in the Hollywood Hills. [Elle]
  

• Rugby Ralph Lauren, which is set to shutter by February, is offering 40 percent off all merchandise both in stores and online. [The Shophound]
  

• JCPenney CEO Ron Johnson says he isn't making ecommerce a priority. "You've got to focus on where they are shopping today, and that is the physical store." [Racked]
  

• This is what the debranded products offered by Selfridges' No Noise campaign look like. [Refinery29]
  

• Karlie Kloss may have spent last season beating up men on the beach, but you'd never know that from her ethereal commercial for Juicy Couture's new scent, Couture La La. [Fashion Copious]
  

Naomi Campbell says she tried to give the girls she coached during the first season of Oxygen's new series The Face, which premieres on Feb. 12, a dose of what the modeling industry is really like.

"I need their morale to be up and at the same time, I'm not the kind of coach that sugar coated things for them," she said in an interview with Modelinia. "I wanted them to get a sense of the real world and what it's like, so I had to coach them with tough love, but I do love my girls."

Campbell didn't give much away when asked about what viewers can expect from the show, but she said even people who aren't interested in modeling could get something out of it.

"I'm authentic. I tell my girls about the experiences I've been through when I need to identify with them. And when I think there's something they can change I give them suggestions, but they don't always have to do what I suggest. I take them out of their comfort zone, but they trust me and that's what really touched me the most — that they trusted me and triumphed at all of the things they didn't think they would triumph in," she said. "It's not only about modeling, it's life lessons. I think many women out there will be inspired by many of the things we say, whether they want to be a model or not."

Alexander Wang is rumored to have asked Carine Roitfeld to join Balenciaga as his in-house stylist, but so far there's been no confirmation of the news.

In fact, Grazia, the first news outlet to report on the pairing, has since taken its post down, but that hasn't stopped other sites from picking up the story. If the rumors hold water, Roitfeld would replace Balenciaga's longtime stylist Marie-Amélie Sauvé, who worked with Nicolas Ghesquière during his tenure at the brand.

Wang and Roitfeld are friends, too, and have worked together in the past (Wang was photographed for Karl Lagerfeld's book The Little Black Jacket, which Roitfeld helped style), but this partnership would be their biggest collaboration yet. In her new position, Roitfeld would help Wang style his runway collections and ad campaigns, giving her an undeniable influence at the brand.

Wang took over for Ghesquière at the end of December and will present his first collection for the house in February. Whether Roitfeld will have anything to do with the show remains to be seen.