Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

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

I'm a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant.

I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.

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 am physically allergic to flip-flops

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

Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.

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.

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

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

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

The advantage of Fashion is that there is no racism

It's never too early to care about fashion.

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

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

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

What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.

The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

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

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

Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea.

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.

Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't.

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

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

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.

Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.

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

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.

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

I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

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

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

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

Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.

Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

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

What I love best in life is new starts.

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

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

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

I only know how to play one role: me.