Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

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

~ Karl Lagerfeld

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

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

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

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.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

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

~ Karl Lagerfeld

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

~ Karl Lagerfeld

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

~ 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

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.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

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

~ Karl Lagerfeld

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

~ Karl Lagerfeld

I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra?

~ Karl Lagerfeld

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.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

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

~ Karl Lagerfeld

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

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.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

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

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

~ Karl Lagerfeld

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

~ 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