Top 428 Quotes & Sayings by Karl Lagerfeld
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German designer Karl Lagerfeld.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
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.
The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
I'm a working-class person, working with class.
I don't take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.
The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!
Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
I like the language in Proust but not the context.
Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.
Everyone wants to know and hopes I retire so they can get the jobs. But my contracts with Fendi and Chanel are lifelong.
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.
I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.
There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.
Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.
What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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.
What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before.
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.
100 percent a huge fan of Beyonce. If I see her, I will faint. I've met her before. I just get really nervous and quiet - I just shut up and bow down.
I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.
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.
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.
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.
I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.
I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
I'm a total puritan, but I found Jacques' adventures amusing. We couldn't be further apart. I am a Calvinist toward myself and totally indulgent toward others.
What I love best in life is new starts.
No one wants to see curvy women.
I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.
Mostly I stay at home from the morning until 5 P.M., and I only go out for fittings and shoots because I work at home. I like to be alone.
I admire people who destroy themselves.
I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
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.
I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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.
I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know.
Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
I don't have any stress. I'm very lucky. I live a very healthy life.
Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
I have no human feelings.
I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.
I never played with anything like toys.
Work is making a living out of being bored.
I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.
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.
Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.
I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!
I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.
I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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.
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