Karl Otto Lagerfeld was a German creative director, fashion designer, artist, photographer, and caricaturist who lived in Paris. Profoundly inspirational Karl Lagerfeld quotes will encourage growth in life, make you wiser and broaden your perspective.
Famous Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
Sunglasses are like eyeshadow: They make everything look younger and pretty. Karl Lagerfeld
I have a sort of Alzheimer’s for my own work, which I think is a very good thing. Today too many people remember what they did just forget it all and start again.
Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants. Karl Lagerfeld
We created a product nobody needs, but people want. If you need an ugly old car, it can wait, but if you want a new fashion item, it cannot wait.
I have no human feelings. Karl Lagerfeld
I’m a kind of fashion nymphomaniac who never gets an orgasm.
Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well. Karl Lagerfeld
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.
Keep the best, forget the rest. Karl Lagerfeld
Whatever it is, good or bad, it influences fashion. You can see that in fashion quicker than in any other thing going on. Fashion is something that reflects our lives and times with the shortest release because, cars, design, and architecture take years to realize.
Black and white always looks modern, whatever that word means. Karl Lagerfeld
Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished. I’m lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. I can do what I want in all kinds of areas. The expenses are not expenses. I would be stupid to stop that. Work is making a living out of being bored.
You can be the chicest thing in a t-shirt and jeans, it’s up to you. Karl Lagerfeld
I’ve been lucky. I didn’t finish school. I learned nothing. It is all improvisation. And yet I am not doing badly.
I am a living label. Karl Lagerfeld
Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t.
My thing is to work more than the others to show them how useless they are. Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion is something people are supposed to consume immediately, not in 10 years.
I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct. Karl Lagerfeld
A sense of humor and a little lack of respect: that’s what you need to make a legend survive.
When things become too popular they are fading away for something else. Karl Lagerfeld
When I was really very, very young, I was very lazy and I was so tacky: I used to like convertible cars, beaches and sunbathing, body building and nightclubs.
I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth. Karl Lagerfeld
When I was four I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.
There are not too many people with an opinion I care for. Karl Lagerfeld
I was never headhunted, because my head was never free. I have no exclusivity with nobody not Chanel, nobody.
When I was four I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday. Karl Lagerfeld
Marketing is a word I never use, because I don’t even know what that means. Let’s forget about it. I don’t have to do that.
Personality begins where comparison ends. Karl Lagerfeld
I am very much down to Earth. Just not this earth.
I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored. Karl Lagerfeld
I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long.
When I did H&M everyone said don’t do it and it worked. When I took over Chanel everyone said to me don’t do it, it’s dead, it doesn’t work, it worked. So I better not listen to people and follow my instincts. Karl Lagerfeld
If you throw money out of the window, throw it out with joy. Don’t say: ‘one shouldn’t do that’ that is bourgeois.
Vanity is the healthiest thing in life. Karl Lagerfeld
What it is, good or bad, it influences fashion. You can see that in fashion quicker than in any other thing going on. Fashion is something that reflects our lives and times with the shortest release because, cars, design and architecture take years to realize.
People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence. Karl Lagerfeld
He is very middle of the road French He is very pied noir, very provincial.
I don’t like standard beauty there is no beauty without strangeness. Karl Lagerfeld
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.
I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me. Karl Lagerfeld
Work is making a living out of being bored.
I like fashion to be part of daily life. Karl Lagerfeld
Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll be all finished.
I get inspired when I’m working, it’s my engine. Karl Lagerfeld
I have nothing to say. I’m actually trying to make sure that I won’t be remembered.
Be proud of yourself. Karl Lagerfeld
I am a sort of vampire, taking the blood of other people.
A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul. Karl Lagerfeld
Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t.
Beauty with character ages better than perfection. Karl Lagerfeld
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.
Trendy is the last stage before tacky. Karl Lagerfeld
It is farmers who are nice to the cows and the pigs and then kill them. It’s even more hypocritical than hunters. At least the hunters don’t flatter the animals. I don’t like that people butcher animals, but I don’t like them to butcher humans either, which is apparently very popular in the world.
The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. Karl Lagerfeld
Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
I am very boring but it has allowed me to survive better than other people. If you don’t drink, you don’t smoke, and you don’t do drugs, and you’re not missing it and never even wanted it, and you sleep for seven hours. I tell you, life is quite pleasant. Karl Lagerfeld
I have always been a horrible puritan Calvinist. But that is not as a result of my education, it is my profound nature. At the end of the day I have allowed myself very little and that is the reason I am still here today. There are people who are made to survive and I fear I am a part of that group; I am not particularly amusing with myself. I am an auto fascist!
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. Karl Lagerfeld
I am never totally pleased. I’m a kind of fashion nymphomaniac who never gets an orgasm. I’m always expecting something from the next time.
I don’t know what normal means anyway. Karl Lagerfeld
I bleach my past. Thank god there isn’t anyone left to remember that anymore! And I’ve forgotten it all myself.
I don’t do anything out of duty and I have absolutely no sense of what it means. I am completely superficial. Fashion, photography, and books outside of that, I couldn’t care less. Karl Lagerfeld
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
Change is the healthiest way to survive. Karl Lagerfeld
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.
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. Karl Lagerfeld
The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.
Evolution is the secret for the next step. Karl Lagerfeld
Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
I like to reinvent myself. It’s part of my job. Karl Lagerfeld
We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world
I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes it’s about all kinds of change. Karl Lagerfeld
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.
Don’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability. Karl Lagerfeld
A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
I can do whatever I want. Karl Lagerfeld
One is never over dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.
It’s up to you to make every day as perfect as possible it’s a question of will and discipline. Karl Lagerfeld
Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
