Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I'm very happy that I have an Italian version, a French version, and then I have my own company, but I'm not obsessed by my name. Some people are, "Oh, my name," but I couldn't care less about my name. What I like is the job. The ego trip of that comes later.
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When things become too popular they are always fading away for something else.
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What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
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Adele is another problem. I never said that she was fat. I said that she was a little roundish; a little roundish is not fat. But for such a beautiful girl... after that she lost eight kilos [17.6 pounds] so I think the message was not that bad.
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Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.
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Change is the healthiest way to survive.
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I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.
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Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.
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I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
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I am very boring, but it has allowed me to survive better than other people. If you don't drink, you don't smoke, and you don't do drugs, and you're not missing it and never even wanted it, and you sleep for seven hours. I tell you, life is quite pleasant.
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Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.
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Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
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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.
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When I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: 'You shouldn't smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke.
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I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
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Normally, I don't recommend me for wedding dresses – they all get a divorce.
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I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
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Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life... they are mean and they want to kill you.
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I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.
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I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home.
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Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion.
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When I wake up I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie! That's why I sleep alone. But the funny thing is that I'm very impeccable and clean before I go to bed. It's just like right before I'm going out.
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If you attach no importance to weight problems, if not being able to wear new, trendy small-sized clothes does not cause you any regret, this book is not for you.