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These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Fantasy is often better than reality. It’s much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Stuff your brain with knowledge.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I always think I'm lazy, maybe I could do better, I could make more effort and I always have the feeling that there is a glass wall that I cannot get through. But maybe when I get through, then it's over.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.
Karl Lagerfeld
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You know, I don't ask myself too much how. I just do it.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?
Karl Lagerfeld
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What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
Karl Lagerfeld
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Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Beauty with character ages better than perfection.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
Karl Lagerfeld
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What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive
Karl Lagerfeld
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The way I talk is bizarre.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I don't have prejudices. I'm against taboos. But of course there are some things I'll never touch - because as a mom, there are things one doesn't want their children to be around.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it's more of an evocation of what you do. It's more an evocation of seduction.
Karl Lagerfeld
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People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.
Karl Lagerfeld
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EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
Karl Lagerfeld
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We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.
Karl Lagerfeld
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The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.
Karl Lagerfeld
