Karl Lagerfeld famous quotes

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fashion #Defeat #Lost

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

#Girl

I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fashion #Earth #Down To Earth

The best way to know people is to work with them.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#People #Way

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fashion #Reality #Clothes

Change is the healthiest way to survive.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Way

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

#Inspiration #Lifestyle #Born

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Beauty #Makeup #Beautiful Women

Work is making a living out of being bored.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Bored

Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fashion #Taste #Dictator

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

#Clothes #Creative #Firsts

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fashion #People #Soul

I'm a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fashion #Jobs #Earth

Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fashion #Taste #Mayonnaise

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Book #Healing #Drug

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Style #Want #Way

Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fashion #Dresses

Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Simple #Shopping #Want

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fall #Sleep #Two

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Needs #Reputation #Problem

I buy my shoes a size too small. I like the way it feels.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Shoes #Way #Size

I never played with anything like toys.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Toys

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

#Way #Persons

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Artist #Past #People

I like the idea of craziness with discipline.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Hate #Ideas #Discipline

THERE'S SOMETHING BORING ABOUT PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO GO TO AN OFFICE FOR A LIVING.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#People #Office #Boring

The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Morning #Sleep #Ideas

I like everything to be washable, myself included.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Eye #Shadow #Sunglasses

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Tunes #Notes #Certain

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 #Women #Jeans

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

#Book #Smell #World

The advantage of Fashion is that there is no racism
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fashion #Racism #Advantage

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Shoes

If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Mean #Past #Want

I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Tourists #Reason

I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Hate #Trying #Sentimental

Today couture has to be expensive, but it shouldn’t look expensive.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Looks #Today #Couture

I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Looks #Want #Feels

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Believe #Inspiration #White

The iPod is genius. I have 300.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fashion #Ipods #Genius

I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fashion #Advertising

Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Dream #Fashion #Luxury

Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Mean #Black #Looks

I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Design #Breathe

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

#Clothes #Black #Black Clothes

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fashion #Opposites #Two

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fashion #Luxury #Style

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

#People #Boredom #Want

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

#Tattoo #Thinking #Dresses

I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Bored

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Satisfaction #Satisfied

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

#Bling #Red #Modesty

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Mother #Attitude #Children

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Vanity

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

#Artist #Body #Sauce

Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Names #Stories

There is no marriage, yet, for human beings and animals. I never thought that I would fall in love like this with a cat.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Falling In Love #Cat #Animal

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Music #Artist #Technology

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

#Clothes #Shoes #Meat

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#People #Care #Opinion

The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Beautiful #Dream #Car

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Age #Looks #Attempting

I'm a working-class person, working with class.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Class #Working Class #Persons

The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fashion #Brain #Body

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Inspirational #Marketing #Instinct

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Artist #Order #Imagination

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Reality #Thinking #Imagination

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

#People #Scare #Dolls

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

#Jobs #Trouble #Breathe

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Motivational #Past #Yesterday

I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Jobs

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Wise #Health #Winning

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Two #Creative #Style

When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Inspirational #People #Want

Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fashion #Memories

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fashion #Clothes #House

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

#Fashion #Shopping #Would Be

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

#Nature #Perfect #People

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fashion #Rebuilding #Morality

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fashion #Periods

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Jobs #People #Creative

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Cutting #Thinking #Clothes

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fashion #Black #Style

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Creativity #Thinking #Design

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 ***** 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

#Sweaters #Yellow #Glasses

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Ideas #Classic #Standards

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

#Music #Air #Color

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

#Fashion #Makeup #Clothes

Its all about taste.If you are cheap, nothing helps
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Taste #Helping

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

#Children #Hate #Intellectual

Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fashion #Motivation #Weight

If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell's boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Beautiful #Men #Russia

Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life... they are mean and they want to kill you.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Hate #Mean #Men

Personality begins where comparison ends.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Personality #Style #Ends

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

#Fashion #Ideas #Design

With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fashion #Perfect #Should

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

#Fashion #Men #Thinking

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

#Fashion #Challenges #Dresses

Trendy is the last stage before tacky.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fashion #Tacky #Lasts