Top 428 Quotes & Sayings by Karl Lagerfeld - Page 5

With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.

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.

Fashion designers are dictators of taste.

Beauty—or the desire to be beautiful—is in itself a dangerous motivation. Someone (I forgot who) once said, ‘Does the person who loves someone for their beauty really love them?’ So don’t focus on beauty ... a respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul. It is the sum of our experiences that makes us interesting, and having been through a time in your life in which you were in a bad place (or what you perceived as a bad place) physically, can be useful. It can even be necessary.

The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.

I am physically allergic to flip-flops

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.

I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.

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.

I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.

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.

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.

If you're not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.

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.

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

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.

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.

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.

The clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.

I don't want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven't done. There's no "again." There's only the future. I hate the past - especially my own past.

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.

During the golden age of movie stars, there were plenty of actresses who were deemed unattractive at the start of their careers, but struggled and finally appeared more beautiful and more iconic. Sometimes that idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.

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.

I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there's no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.

If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.

Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.

I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy

The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.

What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.

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.

I don't know what "normal" means, anyway.

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.

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.

You cannot fake chic but you? can be chic and fake fur

I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.

There are not too many people with an opinion I care for.

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.

Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue

I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny.

Fantasy is often better than reality. It's much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.

In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

Beauty with character ages better than perfection.

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.

I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.

My life is based on change. What I say is OK for the next ten minutes, then I change my mind.

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.

I'm a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant.

I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes - it's about all kinds of change

Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.

It's never too early to care about fashion.

The best way to know people is to work with them.

People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.

I must say, some are not very beautifully made. They’re coffee-table books for people who drink alcohol. I have nothing against coffee-table books as long as they are well done. They must not look like gravestones on a table. Sometimes they are too big, they come in boxes and things like this. No, a book has to be easy to open and you don’t have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.