Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing.

Some people would like me to be round again.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

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

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange. And I don't feel like a stranger. I have more friends in New York than Paris.

Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

Personally, I don't wear fur.

If you attach no importance to weight problems, if not being able to wear new, trendy small-sized clothes does not cause you any regret, this book is not for you.

I also do political cartoons, but a lot of them must stay, as they say, under the coat. But they are very fun to do, and in France, we have a good subject at the moment.

I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.

I sketch in a way that people can nearly do the dresses without me coming in for a fitting. Every single detail, every proportion, every cut -- everything.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

There will never be a chanel collection without black

You have to be impeccable - I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

I think it's very important what young people see in pictures or on TV or in magazines. Drugs, violence, anorexia. All of the things that I absolutely do not reference in my photos.

People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality.

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

I don't have prejudices. I'm against taboos. But of course there are some things I'll never touch - because as a mom, there are things one doesn't want their children to be around.

I see things in the middle of the night. I draw them on paper and I don't even think about it. I'm like a machine in a way - just made of some electronic stuff. Vaguely digital.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Think pink but don't wear it

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

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