Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion -- it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.
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I don't want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven't done. There's no "again." There's only the future. I hate the past - especially my own past.
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When I was very young, at the beginning my business was to work more than the others to show them their pointlessness.
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I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.
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I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny.
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I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
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It's up to you to make every day as perfect as possible - it's a question of will and discipline.
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You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
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Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.
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I only know how to play one role: me.
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I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all.
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When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
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Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability
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Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.
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The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.
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Virgos are very faithful. I'm a faithful friend. I'm a faithful lover.
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Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.
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People are very nice to me, even though I'm known for saying rude things.
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Normal people think I'm insane.
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Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.
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Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time.
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People in magazines are 50% bimbo and 50% pregnant women.
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I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.
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I must say, some are not very beautifully made. They’re coffee-table books for people who drink alcohol. I have nothing against coffee-table books as long as they are well done. They must not look like gravestones on a table. Sometimes they are too big, they come in boxes and things like this. No, a book has to be easy to open and you don’t have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.