Quotes by
Karl Lagerfeld |
1933-2019 , German fashion designer
German creative director and fashion designer who lived in Paris. He was the creative director of the French fashion house Chanel from 1983 until his death. He was also the creative director of the Italian fur and leather goods fashion house Fendi. | 37 quotes | 1,953 visits |
Quotations
| • | Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose! 11 |
| • | It is farmers who are nice to the cows and the pigs and then kill them. It's even more hypocritical than hunters. At least the hunters don't pet the animals. 9 |
| • | Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale. 5 |
| • | 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. 5 |
| • | I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth. 5 |
| • | A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul. 5 |
| • | I send notes. I'm not a chambermaid whom you can ring at every moment. Today, you know, most people act like they work at a switchboard in a hotel. 5 |
| • | Think pink but don't wear it. 4 |
| • | Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge. 4 |
| • | Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality. 4 |
| • | People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence. 4 |
| • | 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. 4 |
| • | The most important piece in the house is the garbage can. 4 |
| • | I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well. 3 |
| • | There will never be a Chanel collection without black. 3 |
| • | Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite. 3 |
| • | Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair. 3 |
| • | I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness. 3 |
| • | For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it. 3 |
| • | Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too. 3 |
| • | In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish. 3 |
| • | I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change. 3 |
| • | Youthfulness is about how you live, not when you were born. 3 |
| • | Absurdity and anti-absurdity are the two poles of creative energy. 3 |
| • | Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity. 3 |
| • | I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job. 3 |
| • | Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books. 3 |
| • | Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants. 3 |
| • | One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress. 3 |
| • | The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. 3 |
| • | Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you. 3 |
| • | If I were interested in children, I would be a godfather. Or a godmother… 3 |
| • | The sunglasses are 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. 3 |
| • | If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: 'one shouldn’t do that' - that is bourgeois. 3 |
| • | Vanity is the healthiest thing in life. 3 |
| • | I’m a kind of fashion nymphomaniac who never gets an orgasm. 3 |
Personal Stories
| • | The iPod is genius. I have 300. 3 |
