Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

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

Trendy is the last stage before tacky.

I am very much down to reality. Just not this reality.

The best thing to do is dive with your feelings.

Fashion is a game that has to be played seriously.

I don’t want to be real. I want to be a myth.

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

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

Simplicity is the key to Eloquence.

I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that.

I don’t know how a woman would ever like to look at herself in front of the mirror!

If you are a crazy person, it’s OK. If you are not a crazy person, pretend to be one.

I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there is a man who gets paid to do meetings.

Black is the new black.

I’m a kind of fashion nymphomaniac who never gets an orgasm.

I’m a foot fetishist without the fetish.

I’m very much down to reality. I don’t live in an ivory tower.

I am a sort of vampire, taking the blood of the period I live in.

I’m very focused on my job. I don’t do anything else.

I drink Diet Coke from the minute I wake up to the minute I go to bed.

I don’t want to look ridiculous, running like a chicken with no head.

I’m a cartoon, but I’m a cartoon with a sense of humour.

Karl Lagerfeld Quotes part 2

Fashion is not about looking back at the past. It’s about looking forward.

I like everything to be washable.

We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get the money.

If you ask me what I’d most like to have invented in fashion, I’d say the white shirt. For men and women.

Personality begins where comparison ends.

I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

I’m very much down to earth. Just not this earth.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t.

Fashion is more than just clothes, it’s a way of life.

Stupid is something that never gets tired.

Fashion is immediate. It is in the air. It is happening now.

I’m like a fashion nymphomaniac who never gets an orgasm.

The best thing is to be curious.

Fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

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

Fashion is not about utility. An accessory is merely a piece of iconography used to express individual identity.

I hate engaged women – they have no time to be bitter.

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.

I am very much down to earth, just not this earth.

I have had every hair color. I think I was blonde when I fell out of the womb.