Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.

Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?

Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time.

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

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.

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny.

Fantasy is often better than reality. It's much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.

Normally, I don't recommend me for wedding dresses – they all get a divorce.

I do my job like I breathe.

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

I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.

Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.

Forget about your folklore. I can take a few inspirations, but I can certainly not do an homage. That's not my trip. I'm a fashion vampire. I take what I need and I leave the rest.

Lana del Rey is not bad at all. She looks very much like a modern-time singer. In her photos she is beautiful. Is she a construct with all her implants? She's not alone with implants.

The discussion of fur is childish.

I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.

Beauty with character ages better than perfection.

I'm rather pro-prostitution, I admire people who do it. It can't be much fun. Thank goodness for it. People need relief or they become murderers.

People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.

I like chocolate. I don’t eat it, but I like the smell of it. People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose. I would love to have a perfume based on chocolate.

I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.

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

We create a product nobody needs but people want. You spend more for what you really want; some boring things you need: an ugly old car can wait, but if you have a new fashion item it cannot wait.

Don't use your film for ugly purpose.

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.

I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections.

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.

The world is not there to please you. It's up to you to please the world.

I’m not crazy to discuss fashion with men. I couldn’t care less about their opinion.

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.

My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

I imagine the world from my window ... Traveling, I think it's a nightmare today. The airports and things the people in the street with the selfies ... I like to stay at home and read.

Some models who aren't the most beautiful end up becoming the greatest of all time.

I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home.

I have no idea of the future -- never, ever. That's what I like about fashion. It's paradise now.

Black, like white, is the best color!

I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.

I have no scene, I go everywhere, I adapt.

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

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.

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

When things become too popular they are always fading away for something else.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

I don't eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind.

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

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