Top 428 Quotes & Sayings by Karl Lagerfeld - Page 6

Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.

Normally, I don't recommend me for wedding dresses – they all get a divorce.

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.

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.

The iPod is genius. I have 300.

If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag.

I don't know Heidi Klum. She was never known in France. Claudia Schiffer also doesn't know who she is.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

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 advantage of Fashion is that there is no racism

Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. 'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. I can do what I want in all kinds of areas. The expenses are not expenses. I would be stupid to stop that. Work is making a living out of being bored.

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.

We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

When I was very young, at the beginning my business was to work more than the others to show them their pointlessness.

Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well.

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive

When I was four, I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.

People in magazines are 50% bimbo and 50% pregnant women.

There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes.

Fur is not murder, but it is quite expensive.

Today couture has to be expensive, but it shouldn’t look expensive.

There is no marriage, yet, for human beings and animals. I never thought that I would fall in love like this with a cat.

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them.

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

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.

I never played with anything like toys. I wanted to be grown-up.

I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

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.

Don't use your film for ugly purpose.

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.

I buy my shoes a size too small. I like the way it feels.

Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion -- it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.

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.

The world is not there to please you. It's up to you to please the world.

I like the present and tomorrow

I can't wait for the iPhone 6. It's my only ambition in life to have it quickly.

I lost 200lb to wear suits by Hedi Slimane

I don't like the Pippa Middleton's face. She should only show her back.

I only wear the latest thing. It's my job.

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.

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.

I'm always busy. You know, the more I do, the more ideas I have—that's the funny thing. The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body builder.

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.

We built everything - toilets included. I think those islands in the middle of nowhere are quite poetic. It's kind of an Oriental Atlantis.

I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections.

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.

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones... You can remember every line to their songs. But today, how often do you remember any of the lines to songs? I mean, I know that one of the Lily Allen's last albums is called It's Not Me, It's You. But I don't know how the songs go.

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.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

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.

You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans - it's up to you.

You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?

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.

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.

Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.

I’m not crazy to discuss fashion with men. I couldn’t care less about their opinion.