Karl Lagerfeld quotes:

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  • Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

  • I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

  • What I love best in life is new starts.

  • When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

  • Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.

  • No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.

  • 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.

  • My hair is not really white; it's kind of grayish, and I don't like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.

  • I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

  • I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

  • Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

  • Who buys French cars? Not me.

  • Work is making a living out of being bored.

  • I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.

  • 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.

  • I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.

  • I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

  • I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

  • The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.

  • 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.

  • I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.

  • But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

  • Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

  • 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.

  • I love to watch times change!

  • My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

  • I'm not a fortune-teller.

  • I hate the past - especially my own past.

  • I didn't play with other children.

  • I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.

  • My mother did not like children.

  • I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.

  • What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

  • The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

  • My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

  • I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

  • In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

  • My opinion can be completely different after a show.

  • I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

  • I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

  • I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.

  • I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

  • I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

  • I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

  • I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.

  • People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.

  • Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

  • I never fall in love.

  • I don't have any stress. I'm very lucky. I live a very healthy life.

  • What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that?s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

  • Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

  • I am physically allergic to flip-flops

  • I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.

  • You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.

  • Don't use expensive clothes as a screen for your personal doubts. Be proud of yourself

  • I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

  • There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes.

  • EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.

  • Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'

  • Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs

  • I don't eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.

  • Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.

  • The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.

  • I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

  • Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't.

  • I don't know Heidi Klum. She was never known in France. Claudia Schiffer also doesn't know who she is.

  • Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

  • Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.

  • The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work.

  • I like the idea of craziness with discipline.

  • No one wants to see curvy women.

  • The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

  • One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

  • Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

  • Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.

  • I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

  • Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

  • To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don't skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.

  • When things become too popular they are always fading away for something else.

  • Virgos are very faithful. I'm a faithful friend. I'm a faithful lover.

  • Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

  • If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag.

  • Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

  • Fashion designers are dictators of taste.

  • 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.

  • The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can't be expected to be taken that seriously.

  • Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive

  • A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That's what you need to make a legend survive.

  • Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.

  • My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.

  • I can't wait for the iPhone 6. It's my only ambition in life to have it quickly.

  • I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

  • I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind.

  • I hate birthdays, .. It's more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it's an evolution. I don't celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.

  • When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.

  • I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.

  • Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

  • I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.

  • I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

  • 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.

  • When I was very young, at the beginning my business was to work more than the others to show them their pointlessness.

  • 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.

  • People in magazines are 50% bimbo and 50% pregnant women.

  • The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.

  • Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

  • 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?

  • Kate Middleton has a nice silhouette and she is the right girl for that boy. I like that kind of woman, I like romantic beauties. On the other hand, her sister struggles. I don't like the sister's face. She should only show her back.

  • The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.

  • Music gives color to the air of the moment.

  • I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

  • The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!

  • 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.

  • Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

  • People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

  • Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.

  • Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.

  • If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

  • Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

  • I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

  • I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

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