Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

Virgos are very faithful. I'm a faithful friend. I'm a faithful lover.

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

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

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.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.

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

The motivation is doing for doing, not [for] having done.

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

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

I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes - it's about all kinds of change

I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

The clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

Black, like white, is the best color!

You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?

There are not too many people with an opinion I care for.

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

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.

I must say, some are not very beautifully made. They’re coffee-table books for people who drink alcohol. I have nothing against coffee-table books as long as they are well done. They must not look like gravestones on a table. Sometimes they are too big, they come in boxes and things like this. No, a book has to be easy to open and you don’t have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.

I don't know Heidi Klum. She was never known in France. Claudia Schiffer also doesn't know who she is.

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.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

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.

Fashion designers are dictators of taste.

The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.

Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

I don't know what "normal" means, anyway.

People in magazines are 50% bimbo and 50% pregnant women.

I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long.

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.

I hate the word 'cheap'. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.

Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.

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

When I was a child, my mother always told me that you could wake up in the middle of the night and be deathly sick, so you always have to be impeccable. I laugh about it now, but I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.

Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.

I like the present and tomorrow

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.

Trendy is the last stage before tacky.

Change is the healthiest way to survive.