Top 428 Quotes & Sayings by Karl Lagerfeld - Page 2
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German designer Karl Lagerfeld.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
No, I never thought I would like cats.
I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.
If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
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.
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.
I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.
Buy clothes the size you want to wear.
My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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.
I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind.
I love to watch times change!
I'm not a fortune-teller.
I'm totally myself.
I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.
Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.
Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
I do my job like I breathe.
Some people would like me to be round again.
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.
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.
I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
Personally, I don't wear fur.
In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.
People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
Who buys French cars? Not me.
People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.
There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.
I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.
I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.
I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.
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.
Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
I hate the past - especially my own past.
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.
I'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.
The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.
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.
My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.
No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
I can do whatever I want.
The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.
I'm an iPod person.
I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.
I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.
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.
I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
I don't do meetings.
I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.
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.
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