Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

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

The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

I’m not crazy to discuss fashion with men. I couldn’t care less about their opinion.

Beauty with character ages better than perfection.

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

You cannot be creative with people around you.

The iPod is genius. I have 300.

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility

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.

I have no scene, I go everywhere, I adapt.

I am physically allergic to flip-flops

What I love best in life is new starts.

When things become too popular they are always fading away for something else.

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.

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.

My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

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

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

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?"

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.

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

Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.

I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind.

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

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.

Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.

I only know how to play one role: me.

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.

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones... You can remember every line to their songs. But today, how often do you remember any of the lines to songs? I mean, I know that one of the Lily Allen's last albums is called It's Not Me, It's You. But I don't know how the songs go.

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

It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

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

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

Beauty—or the desire to be beautiful—is in itself a dangerous motivation. Someone (I forgot who) once said, ‘Does the person who loves someone for their beauty really love them?’ So don’t focus on beauty ... a respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul. It is the sum of our experiences that makes us interesting, and having been through a time in your life in which you were in a bad place (or what you perceived as a bad place) physically, can be useful. It can even be necessary.

We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

I am a sort of vampire, taking the blood of other people.

I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.

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