Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

“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

“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

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

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

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

“I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

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

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

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

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

“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 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

“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

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

“Stuff your brain with knowledge.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

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

“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 Lagerfield

“Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

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

“Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Slang is the suitcase of the damned, my dear. CHECK IT.”
― Heather Cocks