Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

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

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can gi...

I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early d...

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself...

There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divo...

These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin...

When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you...

No one wants to see curvy women.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France...

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

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

The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a ...

Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making c...

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. ...

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

Who buys French cars? Not me.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — yo...

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I h...

I'm very down to Earth, I'm just not from this Earth.

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

When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you ...

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

Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get somet...

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

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, pe...

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them ...

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 ye...

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

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

Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or Englis...

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

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

Respect is not creative ... Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a wh...

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

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

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

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

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

Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.

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

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

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

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

I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the hea...

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

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

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

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

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

I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are neede...

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

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

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.

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

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. T...

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exac...

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

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

Think pink but don't wear it

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

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

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can...

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

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

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

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see...

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

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

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

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