Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

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

~ Karl Lagerfeld

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

~ Karl Lagerfeld

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

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

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

I'm very down to Earth, I'm just not from this Earth.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Respect is not creative ... Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore — and then you get something out of her.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.

~ 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'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

No one wants to see curvy women.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

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.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

~ 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

Who buys French cars? Not me.

~ 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