Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.
These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.
I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.
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.
People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs
Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive
Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.
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.
The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine
I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
