Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
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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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Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
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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.
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The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
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When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.
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Normally, I don't recommend me for wedding dresses – they all get a divorce.
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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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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.
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As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.
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I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
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If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag.
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I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.
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Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.
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I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.
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There is no marriage, yet, for human beings and animals. I never thought that I would fall in love like this with a cat.
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There are so many third-rate people now who are more famous than people who should be famous, but sometimes people who could or should be famous are very boring, too.
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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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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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You cannot fight against it. There's a price you have to pay for fame, and people who don't want to pay that price can get in trouble. I accepted the idea of celebrity because of a French expression: 'You cannot have the butter and the money for the butter.'
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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.
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Beauty—or the desire to be beautiful—is in itself a dangerous motivation. Someone (I forgot who) once said, ‘Does the person who loves someone for their beauty really love them?’ So don’t focus on beauty ... a respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul. It is the sum of our experiences that makes us interesting, and having been through a time in your life in which you were in a bad place (or what you perceived as a bad place) physically, can be useful. It can even be necessary.
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I don't even want to have things associated with my name on the internet - it's very dangerous.
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I lost 200lb to wear suits by Hedi Slimane