Top 100 Lagerfeld's Quotes
#2. I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.
Karl Lagerfeld
#3. EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.
Karl Lagerfeld
#4. If I read too much or know too much it's not because I want to talk about it, it's only because it's interesting for me.
Karl Lagerfeld
#5. 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.
Karl Lagerfeld
#6. Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.
Karl Lagerfeld
#8. I like to be on TV when interviewers are good. I like it especially when it's live. When they can cut things, I don't like it as much. Sometimes they cut something and say, "Well, you would get in trouble, you would get a lawsuit." I tell them, "Well, I don't want my lawyers to be unemployed.
Karl Lagerfeld
#9. It's great that in life you do something that you want to do because you like doing it and you're not bored. I'm not bored at all. I'm even interested in lots of things, more so today than before.
Karl Lagerfeld
#10. When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
Karl Lagerfeld
#11. The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!
Karl Lagerfeld
#12. 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.
Karl Lagerfeld
#13. Never use the word "cheap". Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans - it's up to you.
Karl Lagerfeld
#14. When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.
Karl Lagerfeld
#15. The world is not there to please you. It's up to you to please the world.
Karl Lagerfeld
#16. We built everything - toilets included. I think those islands in the middle of nowhere are quite poetic. It's kind of an Oriental Atlantis.
Karl Lagerfeld
#17. 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.
Karl Lagerfeld
#18. The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work.
Karl Lagerfeld
#19. 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.
Karl Lagerfeld
#20. I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
Karl Lagerfeld
#21. There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes.
Karl Lagerfeld
#22. I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind.
Karl Lagerfeld
#23. Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it's more of an evocation of what you do. It's more an evocation of seduction.
Karl Lagerfeld
#24. I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
Karl Lagerfeld
#25. I care more about the people than about the company. That's why I don't want to own it. I don't want to run a business. People do it better than I do.
Karl Lagerfeld
#26. I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
Karl Lagerfeld
#27. Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.
Karl Lagerfeld
#29. The French say you get hungry when you're eating, and I get inspired when I'm working. It's my engine
Karl Lagerfeld
#30. When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.
Karl Lagerfeld
#31. I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.
Karl Lagerfeld
#32. But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
Karl Lagerfeld
#33. 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.
Karl Lagerfeld
#34. There are nearly 30% of young people who are too fat. So let's take care of the zillions of the too fat before we talk about the percentage that's left.
Karl Lagerfeld
#35. Kate Middleton has a nice silhouette and she is the right girl for that boy. I like that kind of woman, I like romantic beauties. On the other hand, her sister struggles. I don't like the sister's face. She should only show her back.
Karl Lagerfeld
#36. 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
#37. What I do Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be, could be, what it had been to something else.
Karl Lagerfeld
#38. That's why I sleep alone. My hair is curly, and that's why I have my ponytail. I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie,
Karl Lagerfeld
#39. I can't wait for the iPhone 6. It's my only ambition in life to have it quickly.
Karl Lagerfeld
#40. I don't understand the change of hair ... Frankly, the fringe was a bad idea. It's not good.
Karl Lagerfeld
#41. I don't even want to have things associated with my name on the internet - it's very dangerous.
Karl Lagerfeld
#42. Don't sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there's nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
Karl Lagerfeld
#43. I have no idea of the future
never, ever. That's what I like about fashion. It's paradise now.
Karl Lagerfeld
#44. I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
Karl Lagerfeld
#45. When I wake up I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie! That's why I sleep alone. But the funny thing is that I'm very impeccable and clean before I go to bed. It's just like right before I'm going out.
Karl Lagerfeld
#46. I always think I'm lazy, maybe I could do better, I could make more effort and I always have the feeling that there is a glass wall that I cannot get through. But maybe when I get through, then it's over.
Karl Lagerfeld
#47. I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
Karl Lagerfeld
#48. Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.
Karl Lagerfeld
#49. We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It's like hunger and thirst - you need them both.
Karl Lagerfeld
#50. If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell's boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.
Karl Lagerfeld
#51. Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.
Karl Lagerfeld
#53. What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
Karl Lagerfeld
#54. 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
#55. When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
Karl Lagerfeld
#56. Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.
Karl Lagerfeld
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. Fantasy is often better than reality. It's much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.
Karl Lagerfeld
#64. Some models who aren't the most beautiful end up becoming the greatest of all time.
Karl Lagerfeld
#65. I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes
it's about all kinds of change
Karl Lagerfeld
#66. The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.
Karl Lagerfeld
#67. Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
Karl Lagerfeld
#68. We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
Karl Lagerfeld
#69. 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
#70. I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.
Karl Lagerfeld
#71. If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
Karl Lagerfeld
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens
Karl Lagerfeld
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
Karl Lagerfeld
#78. You cannot fight against it. There's a price you have to pay for fame, and people who don't want to pay that price can get in trouble. I accepted the idea of celebrity because of a French expression: 'You cannot have the butter and the money for the butter.'
Karl Lagerfeld
#79. It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.
Karl Lagerfeld
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#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. There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.
Karl Lagerfeld
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#89. 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.
Karl Lagerfeld
#90. 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
#91. People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
Karl Lagerfeld
#92. I love classic beauty. It's an idea of beauty with no standard.
Karl Lagerfeld
#93. The only love that I really believe in is a mother's love for her children.
Karl Lagerfeld
#94. 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
#95. It's up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible.
It's a question of will and discipline.
Karl Lagerfeld
#96. If I were a girl, I always like Chanel. It's so stylish and timeless. So I like Karl Lagerfeld a lot.
Tiesto
#97. 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
#99. If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
Karl Lagerfeld
#100. People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
Karl Lagerfeld
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