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Some models who aren't the most beautiful end up becoming the greatest of all time.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Change is the healthiest way to survive.
Karl Lagerfeld
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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.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.
Karl Lagerfeld
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If I read too much or know too much it's not because I want to talk about it, it's only because it's interesting for me.
Karl Lagerfeld
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The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
Karl Lagerfeld
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The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I lost 200lb to wear suits by Hedi Slimane
Karl Lagerfeld
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Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.
Karl Lagerfeld
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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
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I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I see things in the middle of the night. I draw them on paper and I don't even think about it. I'm like a machine in a way - just made of some electronic stuff. Vaguely digital.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I hate birthdays, .. It's more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it's an evolution. I don't celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.
Karl Lagerfeld
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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.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I only wear the latest thing. It's my job.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Black, like white, is the best color!
Karl Lagerfeld
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I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
Karl Lagerfeld
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The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
Karl Lagerfeld
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You have to be impeccable - I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.
Karl Lagerfeld
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The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
Karl Lagerfeld
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We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
Karl Lagerfeld
