Top 88 Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

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I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the roa

I’m like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.
Karl Lagerfeld
I like the language in Proust but not the context.
Karl Lagerfeld
I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don’t fancy having so much staff now.
Karl Lagerfeld
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.
Karl Lagerfeld
I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.
Karl Lagerfeld
Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It’s for children and families. Not for people like me.
Karl Lagerfeld
The importance of logo into today’s fashion is un! be! Lievable!
Karl Lagerfeld
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.
Karl Lagerfeld
The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
Karl Lagerfeld
I’m not a fortune-teller.
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I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.
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I’m always relaxed.
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What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.
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I’m not very gifted for hairdos. I don’t like gel and all those products.
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I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.
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I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
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I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.
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I’m German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn’t exist any more.
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I’m lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.
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In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
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For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
Karl Lagerfeld
Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That’s over.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
Karl Lagerfeld
What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
Karl Lagerfeld
100 percent a huge fan of Beyonce. If I see her, I will faint. I’ve met her before. I just get really nervous and quiet – I just shut up and bow down.
Karl Lagerfeld
Start your diet during a period of optimism and happine

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.
Karl Lagerfeld
Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
Karl Lagerfeld
The way I talk is bizarre.
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I’m a total puritan, but I found Jacques’ adventures amusing. We couldn’t be further apart. I am a Calvinist toward myself and totally indulgent toward others.
Karl Lagerfeld
Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.
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It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.
Karl Lagerfeld
No one wants to see curvy women.
Karl Lagerfeld
You cannot be creative with people around you.
Karl Lagerfeld
The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
Karl Lagerfeld
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.
Karl Lagerfeld
I never played with anything like toys.
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The story with anorexic girls – nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.
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I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
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I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.
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I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.
Karl Lagerfeld
There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married – who divorce in three seconds – don’t want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.
Karl Lagerfeld
I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.
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I didn’t play with other children.
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I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.
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Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.
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I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.
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Some people would like me to be round again.
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People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.
Karl Lagerfeld
Is there a way to design a room in my house where I float around? I would quite enjoy that. It’s nuts.
Karl Lagerfeld
I love to watch times change!
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for En

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
Karl Lagerfeld
If there’s something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
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There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It’s for children and families. Not for people like me.
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No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don’t think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There’s TV. There’s a lot of things.
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I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.
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Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It’s a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
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I don’t eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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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.
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I never look at my watch when I’m sketching!
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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.
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I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.
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Who buys French cars? Not me.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn’t been in fashion, I’d have been in advertising.
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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.
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I don’t have any stress. I’m very lucky. I live a very healthy life.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.
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Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it ‘the new modesty.’
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If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.
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I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.
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Yes, some people say to me you’re too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.
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I admire people who destroy themselves.
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No, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.
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