Lagerfeld Quotes & Sayings

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

Those cunning bastards at Karl Lagerfeld and Christian Dior knew exactly what was required to trap a poor man. She smelled wonderful. — Jo Nesbo

The iPod is genius. I have 300. — Karl Lagerfeld

What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before. — Karl Lagerfeld

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. — Karl Lagerfeld

I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over. — Karl Lagerfeld

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. — Karl Lagerfeld

What I love best in life is new starts. — Karl Lagerfeld

Clamboring over building detritus was not the lifestyle Karl Lagerfeld had in mind for this sweet little powder-blue suit. As he oversaw the hand stitching in his atelier he had probably imagined the suit living a life of tea parties and lunches with the girls at the Ivy — Tyne O'Connell

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

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. — Karl Lagerfeld

I think it's very important what young people see in pictures or on TV or in magazines. Drugs, violence, anorexia. All of the things that I absolutely do not reference in my photos. — Karl Lagerfeld

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

Music gives color to the air of the moment. — Karl Lagerfeld

Its all about taste.If you are cheap, nothing helps — Karl Lagerfeld

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

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. — Karl Lagerfeld

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

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

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. — Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld never touched a pair of scissors in his life. — Azzedine Alaia

Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty — Karl Lagerfeld

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant. — Karl Lagerfeld

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

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence. — Karl Lagerfeld

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

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. — Karl Lagerfeld

I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway. — Karl Lagerfeld

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea. — Karl Lagerfeld

Who buys French cars? Not me. — Karl Lagerfeld

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. — Karl Lagerfeld

My opinion can be completely different after a show. — Karl Lagerfeld

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. — Karl Lagerfeld

One Is Never Over-Dressed OR Understand With A Little Black Dress By Karl Lagerfeld — Karl Lagerfeld

I'm totally myself. — Karl Lagerfeld

Don't dress to kill, dress to survive. — Karl Lagerfeld

I only know how to play one role: me. — Karl Lagerfeld

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

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. — Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight. — Karl Lagerfeld

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce. — Karl Lagerfeld

I'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. — Karl Lagerfeld

I love Karl Lagerfeld. I worship him. I was brought up in Paris, and my mum used to wear a lot of Chanel. I love the brand. — Emma Watson

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. — Karl Lagerfeld

The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire. — Karl Lagerfeld

Stuff your brain with knowledge. — Karl Lagerfeld

Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation. — Karl Lagerfeld

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life. — Karl Lagerfeld

Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad. — Karl Lagerfeld

You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise? — Karl Lagerfeld

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. — Karl Lagerfeld

Work is making a living out of being bored. — Karl Lagerfeld

I didn't play with other children. — Karl Lagerfeld

Personally, I don't wear fur. — Karl Lagerfeld

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. — Karl Lagerfeld

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

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. — Karl Lagerfeld

was far too young to be bugged, stalked, and murdered. I had never been to Bora Bora or finished In Search of Lost Time or run naked around the Washington Monument or gone skiing with Karl Lagerfeld. I had so much living to do. — Karin Tanabe

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

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second. — Karl Lagerfeld

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. — Karl Lagerfeld

I'm not crazy to discuss fashion with men. I couldn't care less about their opinion. — Karl Lagerfeld

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. — Karl Lagerfeld

I never fall in love. — Karl Lagerfeld

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

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. — Karl Lagerfeld

People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality. — Karl Lagerfeld

When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them. — Karl Lagerfeld

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

On the red carpet, I need to be protected. When I wear a Chanel dress, I feel like I've earned the right to be there. And Karl Lagerfeld is so poetic, such an intelligent man. I like the way he has the power to draw attention. — Rinko Kikuchi

You cannot be creative with people around you. — Karl Lagerfeld

Don't wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you. — Karl Lagerfeld

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. — Karl Lagerfeld

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. — Karl Lagerfeld

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. We live on this whole idea. — Karl Lagerfeld

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching. — Karl Lagerfeld

I don't have prejudices. I'm against taboos. But of course there are some things I'll never touch - because as a mom, there are things one doesn't want their children to be around. — Karl Lagerfeld

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

If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body. — Karl Lagerfeld

I was in love with Lagerfeld's designs. — Franco Moschino

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

Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. — Karl Lagerfeld

I hardly went to school. — Karl Lagerfeld

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books. — Karl Lagerfeld

It's up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible.
It's a question of will and discipline. — Karl Lagerfeld

I can no longer walk in the street. That's over. — Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory. — Karl Lagerfeld

I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now. — Karl Lagerfeld

I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door. — Karl Lagerfeld

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. — Karl Lagerfeld

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am. — Karl Lagerfeld

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.' — Karl Lagerfeld

I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored. — Karl Lagerfeld

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it. — Karl Lagerfeld

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection. — Karl Lagerfeld

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge. — Karl Lagerfeld

I don't eat bubble gum, but I like the smell. — Karl Lagerfeld

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

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. — Karl Lagerfeld

I don't have any stress. I'm very lucky. I live a very healthy life. — Karl Lagerfeld