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 | 1,566 visits |
Quotations
| • | Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose! 10 |
| • | 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. 8 |
| • | 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. 4 |
| • | I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth. 4 |
| • | 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. 4 |
| • | Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale. 4 |
| • | The most important piece in the house is the garbage can. 3 |
| • | 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. 3 |
| • | People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence. 3 |
| • | Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality. 3 |
| • | Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge. 3 |
| • | Think pink but don't wear it. 3 |
| • | I’m a kind of fashion nymphomaniac who never gets an orgasm. 2 |
| • | Vanity is the healthiest thing in life. 2 |
| • | If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: 'one shouldn’t do that' - that is bourgeois. 2 |
| • | 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. 2 |
| • | If I were interested in children, I would be a godfather. Or a godmother… 2 |
| • | 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. 2 |
| • | The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. 2 |
| • | One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress. 2 |
| • | A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul. 2 |
| • | Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants. 2 |
| • | Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books. 2 |
| • | I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job. 2 |
| • | Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity. 2 |
| • | Absurdity and anti-absurdity are the two poles of creative energy. 2 |
| • | Youthfulness is about how you live, not when you were born. 2 |
| • | I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change. 2 |
| • | In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish. 2 |
| • | Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too. 2 |
| • | For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it. 2 |
| • | I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness. 2 |
| • | Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair. 2 |
| • | Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite. 2 |
| • | There will never be a Chanel collection without black. 2 |
| • | 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. 2 |
Personal Stories
| • | The iPod is genius. I have 300. 2 |
