Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
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You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur
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I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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You have to lead your life according to your ideas. Spend all your money and live life in line with what you are fighting for. I hate it when rich people try to be Communists. I think that’s obscene.
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.
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Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.
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If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell's boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.
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My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.
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I like the language in Proust but not the context.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
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The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
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No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
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What I do Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be, could be, what it had been to something else.
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No, I never thought I would like cats.
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Personally, I don't wear fur.
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.