Karl Lagerfeld > Quotes

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

“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.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability”
― 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 love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.”
― 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

“Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Music gives color to the air of the moment.”
― 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

“The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests”
― 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 like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.”
― Karl Lagerfeld