Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

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

I like the idea of craziness with discipline.

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

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.

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

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.

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

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

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

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

The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work.

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.

Change is the healthiest way to survive.

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

Trendy is the last stage before tacky.

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

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

The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - it’s okay for clothes not that great for people

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

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

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

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

I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens

Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn't have it naked, she'll never it clothed.

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.

I hate the word 'cheap'. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.

The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.

Personality begins where comparison ends.

It’s up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible. It’s a question of will and discipline.

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don't skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.

The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.

I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.

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.

You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.

I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all.

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs.

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.

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

What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the lip operations. There are people who have it done and I don't recognise them afterwards. They look like they flew through the windscreen during a car accident and were patched up badly afterwards.

Work is making a living out of being bored.