Top 100 Lagerfeld Quotes
#1. 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
#2. If I were a girl, I always like Chanel. It's so stylish and timeless. So I like Karl Lagerfeld a lot.
Tiesto
#3. 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
#4. Karl Lagerfeld never touched a pair of scissors in his life.
Azzedine Alaia
#5. 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
#6. He sensed her aroma and greedily breathed in the fragrance. He must not let himself be duped. Those cunning bastards at Karl Lagerfeld and Christian Dior knew exactly what was required to trap a poor man.
Jo Nesbo
#8. I went from the glamour of working with Karl Lagerfeld and John Galliano to living on an isolated hilltop, with my husband gone most of the time.
Liberty Ross
#9. People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.
Ines De La Fressange
#10. I would love to be a spokes model for Karl Lagerfeld or Balenciaga or something like that.
Johnny Weir
#11. I am so grateful to Marc Jacobs, Riccardo Tisci, Karl Lagerfeld, and Katie Grand, who took a chance on me that first season and gave me an opportunity.
Kendall Jenner
#13. I love Karl Lagerfeld. I worship him. I was brought up in Paris, and my mum used to wear a lot of Chanel. I love the brand.
Emma Watson
#14. On the red carpet, I need to be protected. When I wear a Chanel dress, I feel like I've earned the right to be there. And Karl Lagerfeld is so poetic, such an intelligent man. I like the way he has the power to draw attention.
Rinko Kikuchi
#15. Karl Lagerfeld and Tom Ford are both geniuses.
Arizona Muse
#16. Clamboring over building detritus was not the lifestyle Karl Lagerfeld had in mind for this sweet little powder-blue suit. As he oversaw the hand stitching in his atelier he had probably imagined the suit living a life of tea parties and lunches with the girls at the Ivy
Tyne O'Connell
#17. One Is Never Over-Dressed OR Understand With A Little Black Dress By Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld
#18. was far too young to be bugged, stalked, and murdered. I had never been to Bora Bora or finished In Search of Lost Time or run naked around the Washington Monument or gone skiing with Karl Lagerfeld. I had so much living to do.
Karin Tanabe
#19. Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather gloves, and he's so smart. But he's a very nice person ... when he comes into a room or studio, he is going to say hello to each person, and the same when he leaves.
Carine Roitfeld
#20. I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.
Lana Del Rey
#21. Those cunning bastards at Karl Lagerfeld and Christian Dior knew exactly what was required to trap a poor man. She smelled wonderful.
Jo Nesbo
#22. 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
#23. 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.
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#24. I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens
Karl Lagerfeld
#25. 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.
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#26. 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.
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#27. If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
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#28. I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.
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#29. 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.
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#30. We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
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#31. Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
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#32. The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.
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#34. Some models who aren't the most beautiful end up becoming the greatest of all time.
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#36. Fantasy is often better than reality. It's much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.
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#37. 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
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#38. 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.
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#39. 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.
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#40. 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.
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#41. Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.
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#42. When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
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#43. I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing.
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#44. What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
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#45. I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes
it's about all kinds of change
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#46. People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
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#47. Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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#48. If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
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#51. 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.
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#52. I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.
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#55. It's up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible.
It's a question of will and discipline.
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#57. Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
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#58. 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.
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#59. My life is based on change. What I say is OK for the next ten minutes, then I change my mind.
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#60. I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
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#61. I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.
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#62. I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
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#64. The only love that I really believe in is a mother's love for her children.
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#65. I love classic beauty. It's an idea of beauty with no standard.
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#66. 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.
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#67. I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.
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#68. People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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#69. 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.
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#70. There is no marriage, yet, for human beings and animals. I never thought that I would fall in love like this with a cat.
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#72. 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.
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#73. 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.
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#74. Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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#75. I am a sort of vampire, taking the blood of other people.
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#78. Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
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#81. Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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#82. 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.
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#83. People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.
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#84. 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.
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#85. The clothes don't have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.
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#89. 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.
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#90. My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.
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#91. 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.
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#92. 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?
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#93. 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.
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#94. I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.
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#95. The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
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#96. 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.
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#97. Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.
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#99. There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.
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#100. 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.
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