Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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.
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I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.
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Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
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I am physically allergic to flip-flops
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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.
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The iPod is genius. I have 300.
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I like to be on TV when interviewers are good. I like it especially when it's live. When they can cut things, I don't like it as much. Sometimes they cut something and say, "Well, you would get in trouble, you would get a lawsuit." I tell them, "Well, I don't want my lawyers to be unemployed."
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I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
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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.
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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.
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For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.
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The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can't be expected to be taken that seriously.
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I don't understand the change of hair...Frankly, the fringe was a bad idea. It's not good.
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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.
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I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.
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I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.
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I didn't play with other children.
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I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.
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If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois.
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When I was four, I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.
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What I hate most in life are people who are not really the peach of the day but who want to be young and sexy. You can fool nobody. There is a moment when you have to accept that somebody else is younger and fresher and hotter. Life is not a beauty contest.
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Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea.
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The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
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We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.