Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

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

The way I talk is bizarre.

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

Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

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.

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

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

I like everything to be washable, myself included.

Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.

Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.

Adele is another problem. I never said that she was fat. I said that she was a little roundish; a little roundish is not fat. But for such a beautiful girl... after that she lost eight kilos [17.6 pounds] so I think the message was not that bad.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

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

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

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

I’m trying to think of the last time I had onions.

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.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. 'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. I can do what I want in all kinds of areas. The expenses are not expenses. I would be stupid to stop that. Work is making a living out of being bored.

We built everything - toilets included. I think those islands in the middle of nowhere are quite poetic. It's kind of an Oriental Atlantis.

I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing.

Personally, I don't wear fur.

You have to be impeccable - I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.

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

I don't want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven't done. There's no "again." There's only the future. I hate the past - especially my own past.

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

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.

I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.

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

If someone gives me a to-do list, I say 'thank you, this is nice.' One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.

Personality begins where comparison ends.

Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion.

Of course there are some evening dresses that you cannot wear in daylight because it would be ridiculous, but there is a kind of dressy touch for daywear, too, ... And everything, it's easy. There's no barrier between dressy, day and sports. It's feminine 24 hours a day.

Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs.

I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.

The advantage of Fashion is that there is no racism

I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

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

I don't eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.

Forget about your folklore. I can take a few inspirations, but I can certainly not do an homage. That's not my trip. I'm a fashion vampire. I take what I need and I leave the rest.

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.

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

I see things in the middle of the night. I draw them on paper and I don't even think about it. I'm like a machine in a way - just made of some electronic stuff. Vaguely digital.

I do my job like I breathe.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

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