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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
Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
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
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
change is the healthiest way to survive -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - don't want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people ... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life ... they are mean and they want to kill you. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Absurdity and anti - absurdity are the two poles of creative energy. -- Karl Lagerfeld
The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. -- Karl Lagerfeld
The world is not there to please you. It's up to you to please the world. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
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. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Personality begins where comparison ends. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I don't understand the change of hair ... Frankly, the fringe was a bad idea. It's not good. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose! -- Karl Lagerfeld
The French say you get hungry when you're eating, and I get inspired when I'm working. It's my engine -- Karl Lagerfeld
You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Music gives color to the air of the moment. -- Karl Lagerfeld
People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Stuff your brain with knowledge. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
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
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
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. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
I never fall in love. -- Karl Lagerfeld
We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I love to watch times change! -- Karl Lagerfeld
I have more friends in New York than Paris. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I do my job like I breathe - so if I can't breathe I'm in trouble. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
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
I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I like newspapers. Maybe the iPad is very modern and everything, and I'm not against it, but I like the physical contact. And the physical contact of metal and glass is not as sensuous as paper. -- Karl Lagerfeld
There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes. -- Karl Lagerfeld
The most important piece in the house is the garbage can. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens -- Karl Lagerfeld
I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
The best way to know people is to work with them. -- Karl Lagerfeld
People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Who buys French cars? Not me. -- Karl Lagerfeld
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish. -- Karl Lagerfeld
The motivation is doing for doing, not [for] having done, -- Karl Lagerfeld
Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I love classic beauty. It's an idea of beauty with no standard. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea. -- Karl Lagerfeld
One Is Never Over-Dressed OR Understand With A Little Black Dress By Karl Lagerfeld -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
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
I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes
it's about all kinds of change -- Karl Lagerfeld
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 -- Karl Lagerfeld
If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I don't know Heidi Klum. She was never known in France. Claudia Schiffer also doesn't know who she is. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Keep the best, forget the rest. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
When I was four, I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
I'm trying to think of the last time I had onions. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
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
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
I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
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
I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I can no longer walk in the street. That's over. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I can do whatever I want. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Fantasy is often better than reality. It's much more inspiring not to go to places than to go. -- Karl Lagerfeld
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I lost 200lb to wear suits by Hedi Slimane -- Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion designers are dictators of taste. -- Karl Lagerfeld
EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.' -- Karl Lagerfeld
Fur is not murder, but it is quite expensive. -- Karl Lagerfeld
When I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: 'You shouldn't smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
I am physically allergic to flip-flops -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
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
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
To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don't skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
I'm a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
Forgiveness isn't something I'm preoccupied with - turning the other cheek isn't my trip. -- Karl Lagerfeld
No, I have someone who comes to the house and washes it, puts in the dry shampoo, and takes care if it because I have no time. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad. -- Karl Lagerfeld
There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I'm not crazy to discuss fashion with men. I couldn't care less about their opinion. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I'm very happy that I have an Italian version, a French version, and then I have my own company, but I'm not obsessed by my name. Some people are, "Oh, my name," but I couldn't care less about my name. What I like is the job. The ego trip of that comes later. -- Karl Lagerfeld
You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise? -- Karl Lagerfeld
My mother did not like children. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Some people would like me to be round again. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Beauty with character ages better than perfection -- Karl Lagerfeld
I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I wanted to become an illustrator as a child. -- Karl Lagerfeld
The iPod completely changed the way people approach music. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it. -- Karl Lagerfeld
The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
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
The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress. -- Karl Lagerfeld
The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman. -- Karl Lagerfeld
One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress. -- Karl Lagerfeld
If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Today couture has to be expensive, but it shouldn't look expensive. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive -- Karl Lagerfeld
You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time. -- Karl Lagerfeld
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can't live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I forget nothing and then, one day, there will be revenge. Innocence isn't exactly everywhere. But I will say innocence also takes you far in photography. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time. -- Karl Lagerfeld
People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I never look at my watch when I'm sketching! -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny. -- Karl Lagerfeld
These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Think pink but don't wear it -- Karl Lagerfeld
I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
I'm very much down to earth, just not this earth. -- Karl Lagerfeld
With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside. -- Karl Lagerfeld
When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different. -- Karl Lagerfeld
We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It's like hunger and thirst - you need them both. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I never played with anything like toys. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I am very boring, but it has allowed me to survive better than other people. If you don't drink, you don't smoke, and you don't do drugs, and you're not missing it and never even wanted it, and you sleep for seven hours. I tell you, life is quite pleasant. -- Karl Lagerfeld
When I was very young, at the beginning my business was to work more than the others to show them their pointlessness. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue -- Karl Lagerfeld
My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I like imagination
and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be
better than reality. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Some models who aren't the most beautiful end up becoming the greatest of all time. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
No, I never thought I would like cats. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests -- Karl Lagerfeld
My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen. -- Karl Lagerfeld
If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don't say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I like everything to be washable, myself included. -- Karl Lagerfeld
The iPod is genius. I have 300. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
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
No one wants to see curvy women. -- Karl Lagerfeld
For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them -- Karl Lagerfeld
The only love that I really believe in is a mother's love for her children. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I don't even want to have things associated with my name on the internet - it's very dangerous. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn't have it naked, she'll never it clothed. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I like the idea of craziness with discipline. -- Karl Lagerfeld
A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul -- Karl Lagerfeld
My life is based on change. What I say is OK for the next ten minutes, then I change my mind. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline. -- Karl Lagerfeld
People in magazines are 50% bimbo and 50% pregnant women. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary. -- Karl Lagerfeld
The clothes don't have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Don't use expensive clothes as a screen for your personal doubts. Be proud of yourself -- Karl Lagerfeld
For me, New York is comfortable, not strange. -- Karl Lagerfeld
T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
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
The way I talk is bizarre. -- Karl Lagerfeld
We live in the world of images, but we also live in the world of the Internet, of zapping and where people move. You can make little videos on your phone. I love very composed images, but the idea of moving pictures with a story, with a plot is quite interesting, too. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Work is making a living out of being bored. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I prefer to be in a video than to play with it. -- Karl Lagerfeld
It's never too early to care about fashion. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it. -- Karl Lagerfeld
If you're not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Don't use your film for ugly purpose. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim. -- Karl Lagerfeld
No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I don't do meetings. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Personally, I don't wear fur. -- Karl Lagerfeld
It's up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible.
It's a question of will and discipline. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over. -- Karl Lagerfeld
The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty -- Karl Lagerfeld
I have no human feelings. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I can't wait for the iPhone 6. It's my only ambition in life to have it quickly. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I don't want to be on the Internet. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
You cannot be creative with people around you. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I'm an iPod person. -- Karl Lagerfeld
If someone gives me a to-do list, I say 'thank you, this is nice.' One needs things to throw in the wastebasket. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive. -- Karl Lagerfeld
There are not too many people with an opinion I care for. -- Karl Lagerfeld
My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed! -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
I only wear the latest thing. It's my job. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
I eat next to nothing. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I am a sort of vampire, taking the blood of other people. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I'm not a fortune-teller. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight. -- Karl Lagerfeld
The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist. -- Karl Lagerfeld
When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I'm totally myself. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I like to reinvent myself - it's part of my job. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently -- Karl Lagerfeld
Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability -- Karl Lagerfeld
When I was younger I wanted to be a caricaturist. In the end, I've become a caricature. -- Karl Lagerfeld
If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it. -- Karl Lagerfeld
At my age, I don't need to be a sexy bundle of muscles, thank you very much. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Black, like white, is the best color! -- Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books. -- Karl Lagerfeld
The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
Buy clothes the size you want to wear. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Don't dress to kill, dress to survive. -- Karl Lagerfeld
The discussion of fur is childish. -- Karl Lagerfeld
When things become too popular they are always fading away for something else. -- Karl Lagerfeld
My only ambition in life ... is to wear size 28 jeans. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants. -- Karl Lagerfeld
What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Trendy is the last stage before tacky. -- Karl Lagerfeld
The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable! -- Karl Lagerfeld
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. We live on this whole idea. -- Karl Lagerfeld
The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion. -- Karl Lagerfeld
There will never be a chanel collection without black -- Karl Lagerfeld
Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I'm a working-class person, working with class. -- Karl Lagerfeld
For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I live my memoirs, I don't have to write them down. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Life should be larger than life.
Size is important to escape normalization. -- Karl Lagerfeld
The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I buy my shoes a size too small. I like the way it feels. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion is what people wear not only what you see on the Runway -- Karl Lagerfeld
I hardly went to school. -- Karl Lagerfeld
What I love best in life is new starts. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair. -- Karl Lagerfeld
The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can't be expected to be taken that seriously. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Music is part of the life of fashion, too. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
I'm always relaxed. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I hate the past - especially my own past. -- Karl Lagerfeld
It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I didn't play with other children. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I have no scene, I
go everywhere, I adapt -- Karl Lagerfeld
The advantage of Fashion is that there is no racism -- Karl Lagerfeld
I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door. -- Karl Lagerfeld
If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Elegance has nothing to do with fashion. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity. -- Karl Lagerfeld
What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Truth is only a question of point of view. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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
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
Virgos are very faithful. I'm a faithful friend. I'm a faithful lover. -- Karl Lagerfeld
If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I don't do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness, -- Karl Lagerfeld
What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I do my job like I breathe. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Vanity is the healthiest thing in life. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Don't wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Its all about taste.If you are cheap, nothing helps -- Karl Lagerfeld
I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I have no idea of the future
never, ever. That's what I like about fashion. It's paradise now. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I don't eat bubble gum, but I like the smell. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I only know how to play one role: me. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I don't have any stress. I'm very lucky. I live a very healthy life. -- Karl Lagerfeld
If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility -- Karl Lagerfeld
I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now. -- Karl Lagerfeld
In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I'm very down to Earth, I'm just not from this Earth. -- Karl Lagerfeld
You know, I don't ask myself too much how. I just do it. -- Karl Lagerfeld
My opinion can be completely different after a show. -- Karl Lagerfeld
What I hate is nasty, ugly people. -- Karl Lagerfeld
My sisters were sent away because my mother thought they were boring. I was not boring. -- Karl Lagerfeld
