Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I hardly went to school. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed! ~ Karl Lagerfeld

The world is not there to please you. It's up to you to please the world. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Clamboring over building detritus was not the lifestyle Karl Lagerfeld had in mind for this sweet little powder-blue suit. As he oversaw the hand stitching in his atelier he had probably imagined the suit living a life of tea parties and lunches with the girls at the Ivy ~ Tyne O'Connell

If you attach no importance to weight problems, if not being able to wear new, trendy small-sized clothes does not cause you any regret, this book is not for you. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I forget nothing and then, one day, there will be revenge. Innocence isn't exactly everywhere. But I will say innocence also takes you far in photography. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I like to be on TV when interviewers are good. I like it especially when it's live. When they can cut things, I don't like it as much. Sometimes they cut something and say, "Well, you would get in trouble, you would get a lawsuit." I tell them, "Well, I don't want my lawyers to be unemployed. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I like chocolate. I don't eat it, but I like the smell of it. People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose. I would love to have a perfume based on chocolate. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I never look at my watch when I'm sketching! ~ Karl Lagerfeld

There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes
it's about all kinds of change ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Music is part of the life of fashion, too. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Music gives color to the air of the moment. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather gloves, and he's so smart. But he's a very nice person ... when he comes into a room or studio, he is going to say hello to each person, and the same when he leaves. ~ Carine Roitfeld

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don't say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I am so grateful to Marc Jacobs, Riccardo Tisci, Karl Lagerfeld, and Katie Grand, who took a chance on me that first season and gave me an opportunity. ~ Kendall Jenner

I love Karl Lagerfeld. I worship him. I was brought up in Paris, and my mum used to wear a lot of Chanel. I love the brand. ~ Emma Watson

On the red carpet, I need to be protected. When I wear a Chanel dress, I feel like I've earned the right to be there. And Karl Lagerfeld is so poetic, such an intelligent man. I like the way he has the power to draw attention. ~ Rinko Kikuchi

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread ...
I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I like to reinvent myself - it's part of my job. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

was far too young to be bugged, stalked, and murdered. I had never been to Bora Bora or finished In Search of Lost Time or run naked around the Washington Monument or gone skiing with Karl Lagerfeld. I had so much living to do. ~ Karin Tanabe

The motivation is doing for doing, not [for] having done, ~ Karl Lagerfeld

People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Think pink but don't wear it ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Virgos are very faithful. I'm a faithful friend. I'm a faithful lover. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

They're my burka ... I'm a little shortsighted, and people, when they're shortsighted, they remove their glasses and then they look like cute little dogs who want to be adopted. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Elegance has nothing to do with fashion. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I'm an iPod person. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I don't do meetings. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I have no idea of the future
never, ever. That's what I like about fashion. It's paradise now. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Some people would like me to be round again. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I eat next to nothing. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it's more of an evocation of what you do. It's more an evocation of seduction. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

The way I talk is bizarre. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - don't want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women
forget about that. Forget about that. It's a very bad way of thinking. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

The clothes don't have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I'm not a fortune-teller. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don't skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

What I do Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be, could be, what it had been to something else. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

The most important piece in the house is the garbage can. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - it's okay for clothes not that great for people ~ Karl Lagerfeld

When I wake up I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie! That's why I sleep alone. But the funny thing is that I'm very impeccable and clean before I go to bed. It's just like right before I'm going out. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.' ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I had an interview once with some German journalist - some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists - maybe a week after - and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, 'It's impolite; remove your glasses.' I said, 'Do I ask you to remove your bra? ~ Karl Lagerfeld

These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I have no human feelings. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I would love to be a spokes model for Karl Lagerfeld or Balenciaga or something like that. ~ Johnny Weir

When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Never use the word "cheap". Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans - it's up to you. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

You cannot be creative with people around you. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue ~ Karl Lagerfeld

The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

There are so many third-rate people now who are more famous than people who should be famous, but sometimes people who could or should be famous are very boring, too. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I do my job like I breathe - so if I can't breathe I'm in trouble. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what's needed by nature, and what's needed is to bring something new. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me. ~ Ines De La Fressange

The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world. ~ Karl Lagerfeld