Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.

I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.

At my age, I don’t need to be a sexy bundle of muscles, thank you very much.

I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.

I’m like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road. I’m here for two days in New York; I leave in the morning early. I come back for Anna Wintour’s party at the Met, then again at the end of May for a prize I get from the Gordon Parks Foundation.

I don't even want to have things associated with my name on the internet - it's very dangerous.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

Sometimes the idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.

No, I have someone who comes to the house and washes it, puts in the dry shampoo, and takes care if it because I have no time.

If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois.

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.

I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.

The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.

If I read too much or know too much it's not because I want to talk about it, it's only because it's interesting for me.

I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.

The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it’s up to you.

There are so many third-rate people now who are more famous than people who should be famous, but sometimes people who could or should be famous are very boring, too.

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.

They're my burka... I'm a little shortsighted, and people, when they're shortsighted, they remove their glasses and then they look like cute little dogs who want to be adopted.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

I'm always busy. You know, the more I do, the more ideas I have—that's the funny thing. The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body builder.

My sisters were sent away because my mother thought they were boring. I was not boring.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion -- it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.

The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them.

I only wear the latest thing. It's my job.

EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the lip operations. There are people who have it done and I don't recognise them afterwards. They look like they flew through the windscreen during a car accident and were patched up badly afterwards.

There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

Think pink, but don't wear it.

People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - don’t want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.