those alongside heartfelt sentiments from models and mousses like cindy crawford, naomi campbell andying, karl was brilliant, he was wicked. he was funny, he was generous beyond measure and he was deeply kind. i will miss him so very much. lagerfeld, who famously lost 90 pounds in 13 months, even authoring a book called the karl lagerfeld diet, sat down with our diane sawyer on "gma" in 2002. >> and did you ever fall off the wagon? >> no, no. i have lots of discipline and i have a very fascist mind with myself, not with other but myself i'm a fascist. >> reporter: and while the fashion icon clearly adored women, he rarely held his sharp tongue, famously calling adele a little too fat and chiding meryl streep for her cheapness after lagerfeld said she turned down one of his designs. >> fashion has to go with time. if fashion doesn't go with time, fashion would be lost. >> reporter: but lagerfeld did have a softer side and was a master of maxims, collected in a 2013 book, "the world according to karl," where he acknowledges he's very much down to earth, just not of this earth. lagerfel