Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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Beauty with character ages better than perfection.
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Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.
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I'm rather pro-prostitution, I admire people who do it. It can't be much fun. Thank goodness for it. People need relief or they become murderers.
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If someone gives me a to-do list, I say 'thank you, this is nice.' One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.
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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.
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I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
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I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
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You know, I don't ask myself too much how. I just do it.
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Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the lip operations. There are people who have it done and I don't recognise them afterwards. They look like they flew through the windscreen during a car accident and were patched up badly afterwards.
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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.
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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?
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Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.
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What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
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I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.
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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.
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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
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I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
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Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
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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.
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The way I talk is bizarre.
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Of course there are some evening dresses that you cannot wear in daylight because it would be ridiculous, but there is a kind of dressy touch for daywear, too, ... And everything, it's easy. There's no barrier between dressy, day and sports. It's feminine 24 hours a day.
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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.
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There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.
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I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.