Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

My hair is not really white; it's kind of grayish, and I don't like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.

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

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

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

The purpose of life is life.

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.

What I hate most in life are people who are not really the peach of the day but who want to be young and sexy. You can fool nobody. There is a moment when you have to accept that somebody else is younger and fresher and hotter. Life is not a beauty contest.

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.

Who buys French cars? Not me.

My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.

I never fall in love.

You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans - it's up to you.

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

There will never be a chanel collection without black

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

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

There are nearly 30% of young people who are too fat. So let's take care of the zillions of the too fat before we talk about the percentage that's left.

Fashion is what people wear not only what you see on the Runway

My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.

Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.

In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.

If you're not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.

That's why I sleep alone. My hair is curly, and that's why I have my ponytail. I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie.

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

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

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

Don't use expensive clothes as a screen for your personal doubts. Be proud of yourself

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

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive

The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can't be expected to be taken that seriously.

The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.

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

A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That's what you need to make a legend survive.

When I was very young, at the beginning my business was to work more than the others to show them their pointlessness.

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

When I was four, I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.

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.

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.

I like the idea of craziness with discipline.

I think it's very important what young people see in pictures or on TV or in magazines. Drugs, violence, anorexia. All of the things that I absolutely do not reference in my photos.

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

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

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

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

Some people would like me to be round again.

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

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