Best 277 quotes of Karl Lagerfeld on MyQuotes

A book has to be easy to open and you don't have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.

Adele is another problem. I never said that she was fat. I said that she was a little roundish; a little roundish is not fat. But for such a beautiful girl... after that she lost eight kilos [17.6 pounds] so I think the message was not that bad.

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

At my age, I don’t need to be a sexy bundle of muscles, thank you very much.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

Beauty—or the desire to be beautiful—is in itself a dangerous motivation. Someone (I forgot who) once said, ‘Does the person who loves someone for their beauty really love them?’ So don’t focus on beauty ... a respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul. It is the sum of our experiences that makes us interesting, and having been through a time in your life in which you were in a bad place (or what you perceived as a bad place) physically, can be useful. It can even be necessary.

Beauty with character ages better than perfection.

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.

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.

Black, like white, is the best color!

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

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

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.

Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.

Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

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.

Change is the healthiest way to survive.

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

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.

Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.

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.

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

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability

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

Don't use your film for ugly purpose.

Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women--forget about that. Forget about that. It's a very bad way of thinking.

During the golden age of movie stars, there were plenty of actresses who were deemed unattractive at the start of their careers, but struggled and finally appeared more beautiful and more iconic. Sometimes that idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.

Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn't have it naked, she'll never it clothed.

Evolution is the secret for the next step.

Fashion designers are dictators of taste.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

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

Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

Forget about your folklore. I can take a few inspirations, but I can certainly not do an homage. That's not my trip. I'm a fashion vampire. I take what I need and I leave the rest.

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

Fur is not murder, but it is quite expensive.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

I also do political cartoons, but a lot of them must stay, as they say, under the coat. But they are very fun to do, and in France, we have a good subject at the moment.

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

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.

I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.

I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections.

I am a sort of vampire, taking the blood of other people.

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.

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

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.