Top 428 Quotes & Sayings by Karl Lagerfeld - Page 7

Sometimes the idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.

Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.

Some models who aren't the most beautiful end up becoming the greatest of all time.

If I read too much or know too much it's not because I want to talk about it, it's only because it's interesting for me.

Black, like white, is the best color!

I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.

What I do Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be, could be, what it had been to something else.

I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.

I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.

They are this horrible thing where you are distorted. The chin is too big, the head is too small. No, this is electronic masturbation.

I’m trying to think of the last time I had onions.

I always think I'm lazy, maybe I could do better, I could make more effort and I always have the feeling that there is a glass wall that I cannot get through. But maybe when I get through, then it's over.

Forget about your folklore. I can take a few inspirations, but I can certainly not do an homage. That's not my trip. I'm a fashion vampire. I take what I need and I leave the rest.

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.

Lana del Rey is not bad at all. She looks very much like a modern-time singer. In her photos she is beautiful. Is she a construct with all her implants? She's not alone with implants.

If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.

It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.

People are very nice to me, even though I'm known for saying rude things.

I’m like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road. I’m here for two days in New York; I leave in the morning early. I come back for Anna Wintour’s party at the Met, then again at the end of May for a prize I get from the Gordon Parks Foundation.

Evolution is the secret for the next step.

Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?

Of course there are some evening dresses that you cannot wear in daylight because it would be ridiculous, but there is a kind of dressy touch for daywear, too, ... And everything, it's easy. There's no barrier between dressy, day and sports. It's feminine 24 hours a day.

Don't use expensive clothes as a screen for your personal doubts. Be proud of yourself

Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.

The motivation is doing for doing, not [for] having done.

I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed!

I like newspapers. Maybe the iPad is very modern and everything, and I'm not against it, but I like the physical contact. And the physical contact of metal and glass is not as sensuous as paper.

I have no idea of the future -- never, ever. That's what I like about fashion. It's paradise now.

I am a sort of vampire, taking the blood of other people.

There are nearly 30% of young people who are too fat. So let's take care of the zillions of the too fat before we talk about the percentage that's left.

I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home.

Virgos are very faithful. I'm a faithful friend. I'm a faithful lover.

I don't understand the change of hair...Frankly, the fringe was a bad idea. It's not good.

I have no scene, I go everywhere, I adapt.

At my age, I don’t need to be a sexy bundle of muscles, thank you very much.

Fashion is what people wear not only what you see on the Runway

I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing.

If you attach no importance to weight problems, if not being able to wear new, trendy small-sized clothes does not cause you any regret, this book is not for you.

We live in the world of images, but we also live in the world of the Internet, of zapping and where people move. You can make little videos on your phone. I love very composed images, but the idea of moving pictures with a story, with a plot is quite interesting, too.

If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.

Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time.

I'm very happy that I have an Italian version, a French version, and then I have my own company, but I'm not obsessed by my name. Some people are, "Oh, my name," but I couldn't care less about my name. What I like is the job. The ego trip of that comes later.

I sketch in a way that people can nearly do the dresses without me coming in for a fitting. Every single detail, every proportion, every cut -- everything.

If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois.

When things become too popular they are always fading away for something else.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange. And I don't feel like a stranger. I have more friends in New York than Paris.

The discussion of fur is childish.

You know, I don't ask myself too much how. I just do it.

The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work.

Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.

You cannot fight against it. There's a price you have to pay for fame, and people who don't want to pay that price can get in trouble. I accepted the idea of celebrity because of a French expression: 'You cannot have the butter and the money for the butter.'

My sisters were sent away because my mother thought they were boring. I was not boring.

I also do political cartoons, but a lot of them must stay, as they say, under the coat. But they are very fun to do, and in France, we have a good subject at the moment.

No, I have someone who comes to the house and washes it, puts in the dry shampoo, and takes care if it because I have no time.

Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility

I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - it’s okay for clothes not that great for people

I like to be on TV when interviewers are good. I like it especially when it's live. When they can cut things, I don't like it as much. Sometimes they cut something and say, "Well, you would get in trouble, you would get a lawsuit." I tell them, "Well, I don't want my lawyers to be unemployed."