A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul.
– Karl Lagerfeld
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is
childish.
– 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 like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.
– Karl Lagerfeld
When I was four I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.
– Karl Lagerfeld
A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: that’s what you need to make a legend
survive.
– 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 am basically the most superficial person in the world.
– Karl Lagerfeld
I’m a working-class person, working with class.
– Karl Lagerfeld
I am a kind of fashion nymphomaniac who never gets an orgasm.
– Karl Lagerfeld
I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
– 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
When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
– 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
My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
– Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.
– Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.
– Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion is like music – we all have to make our own tune.
– Karl Lagerfeld
I live in a set, with the curtains of the stage closed with no audience – but who cares?
– Karl Lagerfeld
I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
– Karl Lagerfeld
The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.
– Karl Lagerfeld
The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.
– Karl Lagerfeld
Life is not a beauty contest; intelligence lasts, youth and beauty are seasonal.
– Karl Lagerfeld
Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
– Karl Lagerfeld
Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
– 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
Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
– Karl Lagerfeld
I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.
– Karl Lagerfeld
Normally, I don’t recommend me for wedding dresses – they all get a divorce.
– Karl Lagerfeld
The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.
– Karl Lagerfeld
Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
– Karl Lagerfeld
I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
– Karl Lagerfeld
I lost 200lb to wear suits by Hedi Slimane.
– Karl Lagerfeld
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
– 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
Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
– Karl Lagerfeld
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible
to reproduce.
– Karl Lagerfeld
Absurdity and anti-absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.
– 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
Don’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability.
– Karl Lagerfeld
Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.
– Karl Lagerfeld
I never touch sugar, cheese, bread. I only like what I’m allowed to like. I’m beyond
temptation. There is no weakness.
– Karl Lagerfeld
My only ambition in life is to wear size 28 jeans.
– Karl Lagerfeld
Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose.
– Karl Lagerfeld
No one wants to see curvy women.
– 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
I like the idea of craziness with discipline.
– Karl Lagerfeld
Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with – turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.
– Karl Lagerfeld
The purpose of life is life.
– Karl Lagerfeld
Work is making a living out of being bored.
– Karl Lagerfeld
Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge
– 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
Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.
– Karl Lagerfeld
I do my job like I breathe – so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
– Karl Lagerfeld
I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
– Karl Lagerfeld
Frustration is the mother of crime, and so there would be much more crime without
prostitutes and without porn movies.
– 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 very much down to earth, just not this earth.
– 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
I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is
modern.
– Karl Lagerfeld
Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some
sweatpants.
– 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 love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
– Karl Lagerfeld
I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-
satisfaction.
– Karl Lagerfeld
I remember a designer who said that intelligent women don’t wear her dresses. Obviously, she
went bankrupt.
– Karl Lagerfeld
One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.
– Karl Lagerfeld
The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
– Karl Lagerfeld
Having adult children makes you look 100 years old. I don’t want that.
– 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