
Top 100 Lagerfeld Quotes
#1. 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.
Karl Lagerfeld
#2. You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
Karl Lagerfeld
#3. I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens
Karl Lagerfeld
#4. Those social networks, there's something sad about them. Is it because they don't have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don't understand it. It's like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.
Karl Lagerfeld
#5. 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.
Karl Lagerfeld
#6. If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
Karl Lagerfeld
#7. I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.
Karl Lagerfeld
#8. 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.
Karl Lagerfeld
#9. We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
Karl Lagerfeld
#10. Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
Karl Lagerfeld
#11. The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.
Karl Lagerfeld
#13. Some models who aren't the most beautiful end up becoming the greatest of all time.
Karl Lagerfeld
#15. Fantasy is often better than reality. It's much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.
Karl Lagerfeld
#16. The attention from the fashion world is something that I didn't expect. I've shot with Bruce Weber and met Karl Lagerfeld. Having that kind of attention is really exciting.
Emily Ratajkowski
#17. The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - it's okay for clothes not that great for people
Karl Lagerfeld
#18. I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all.
Karl Lagerfeld
#19. You have to lead your life according to your ideas. Spend all your money and live life in line with what you are fighting for. I hate it when rich people try to be Communists. I think that's obscene.
Karl Lagerfeld
#20. What I hate most in life are people who are not really the peach of the day but who want to be young and sexy. You can fool nobody. There is a moment when you have to accept that somebody else is younger and fresher and hotter. Life is not a beauty contest.
Karl Lagerfeld
#21. Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.
Karl Lagerfeld
#22. When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
Karl Lagerfeld
#23. I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing.
Karl Lagerfeld
#24. What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
Karl Lagerfeld
#25. I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes
it's about all kinds of change
Karl Lagerfeld
#26. People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
Karl Lagerfeld
#27. Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
Karl Lagerfeld
#28. If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
Karl Lagerfeld
#31. The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.
Karl Lagerfeld
#32. I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.
Karl Lagerfeld
#33. If I were a girl, I always like Chanel. It's so stylish and timeless. So I like Karl Lagerfeld a lot.
Tiesto
#34. I met with Karl Lagerfeld, and if you have those kind of connections, that takes you into that world and puts you on that level.
Emily Ratajkowski
#37. It's up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible.
It's a question of will and discipline.
Karl Lagerfeld
#39. Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
Karl Lagerfeld
#40. Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
Karl Lagerfeld
#41. My life is based on change. What I say is OK for the next ten minutes, then I change my mind.
Karl Lagerfeld
#42. I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
Karl Lagerfeld
#43. I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.
Karl Lagerfeld
#44. I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
Karl Lagerfeld
#46. The only love that I really believe in is a mother's love for her children.
Karl Lagerfeld
#47. I love classic beauty. It's an idea of beauty with no standard.
Karl Lagerfeld
#48. Adele is another problem. I never said that she was fat. I said that she was a little roundish; a little roundish is not fat. But for such a beautiful girl ... after that she lost eight kilos [17.6 pounds] so I think the message was not that bad.
Karl Lagerfeld
#49. I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.
Karl Lagerfeld
#50. People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
Karl Lagerfeld
#51. No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
Karl Lagerfeld
#52. There is no marriage, yet, for human beings and animals. I never thought that I would fall in love like this with a cat.
Karl Lagerfeld
#54. 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.
Karl Lagerfeld
#55. 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.
Karl Lagerfeld
#56. Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
Karl Lagerfeld
#57. I am a sort of vampire, taking the blood of other people.
Karl Lagerfeld
#60. Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
Karl Lagerfeld
#63. Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
Karl Lagerfeld
#64. A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.
Karl Lagerfeld
#65. People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.
Karl Lagerfeld
#66. 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.
Karl Lagerfeld
#67. The clothes don't have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.
Karl Lagerfeld
#71. It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.
Karl Lagerfeld
#72. My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.
Karl Lagerfeld
#73. Karl Lagerfeld never touched a pair of scissors in his life.
Azzedine Alaia
#74. They're my burka ... I'm a little shortsighted, and people, when they're shortsighted, they remove their glasses and then they look like cute little dogs who want to be adopted.
Karl Lagerfeld
#75. 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?
Karl Lagerfeld
#76. My hair is not really white; it's kind of grayish, and I don't like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.
Karl Lagerfeld
#77. I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.
Karl Lagerfeld
#78. The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
Karl Lagerfeld
#79. Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women
forget about that. Forget about that. It's a very bad way of thinking.
Karl Lagerfeld
#80. Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.
Karl Lagerfeld
#82. There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.
Karl Lagerfeld
#83. I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.
Karl Lagerfeld
#84. I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
Karl Lagerfeld
#85. 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.
Karl Lagerfeld
#86. Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue
Karl Lagerfeld
#87. There's a lot of work that goes into it - if you think about how many collections a year that Karl Lagerfeld has to do, with Chanel and all the other things he does - you can't do that unless you are working 18 hours a day. It's really a lot of hard, hard work.
Penelope Cruz
#88. Of course there are some evening dresses that you cannot wear in daylight because it would be ridiculous, but there is a kind of dressy touch for daywear, too, ... And everything, it's easy. There's no barrier between dressy, day and sports. It's feminine 24 hours a day.
Karl Lagerfeld
#89. I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.
Karl Lagerfeld
#90. I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.
Karl Lagerfeld
#91. I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
Karl Lagerfeld
#92. They are this horrible thing where you are distorted. The chin is too big, the head is too small. No, this is electronic masturbation.
Karl Lagerfeld
#94. I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.
Karl Lagerfeld
#95. Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
Karl Lagerfeld
#96. 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.
Karl Lagerfeld
#97. I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.
Karl Lagerfeld
#98. It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.
Karl Lagerfeld
#99. I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.
Karl Lagerfeld
#100. Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well.
Karl Lagerfeld
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