Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

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

Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

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

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.

No, I never thought I would like cats.

Fur is not murder, but it is quite expensive.

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.

Lana del Rey is not bad at all. She looks very much like a modern-time singer. In her photos she is beautiful. Is she a construct with all her implants? She's not alone with implants.

No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.

I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.

We create a product nobody needs but people want. You spend more for what you really want; some boring things you need: an ugly old car can wait, but if you have a new fashion item it cannot wait.

It’s great that in life you do something that you want to do because you like doing it and you’re not bored. I’m not bored at all. I’m even interested in lots of things, more so today than before.

Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

You cannot fight against it. There's a price you have to pay for fame, and people who don't want to pay that price can get in trouble. I accepted the idea of celebrity because of a French expression: 'You cannot have the butter and the money for the butter.'

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

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

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.

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

I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.

Evolution is the secret for the next step.

They are this horrible thing where you are distorted. The chin is too big, the head is too small. No, this is electronic masturbation.

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.

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.

When I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: 'You shouldn't smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke.

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

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

Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn't have it naked, she'll never it clothed.

Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.

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

It's never too early to care about fashion.

Keep the best, forget the rest.

I don't have prejudices. I'm against taboos. But of course there are some things I'll never touch - because as a mom, there are things one doesn't want their children to be around.

Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea.

I didn't play with other children.

You have to lead your life according to your ideas. Spend all your money and live life in line with what you are fighting for. I hate it when rich people try to be Communists. I think that’s obscene.

People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality.

No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

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

I never played with anything like toys. I wanted to be grown-up.

I don't like the Pippa Middleton's face. She should only show her back.

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.

No one wants to see curvy women.