Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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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I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.
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For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them.
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Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
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I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.
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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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I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.
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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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When things become too popular they are always fading away for something else.
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Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty
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Those social networks, there's something sad about them. Is it because they don't have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don't understand it. It's like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.
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The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
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I hate the word 'cheap'. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
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In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.
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My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.
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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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Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.
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I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.
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If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag.
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Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
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People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality.
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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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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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Change is the healthiest way to survive.