Top 300 Karl Lagerfeld Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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2. “Personality begins where comparison ends.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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4. “I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

5. “Evolution is the secret for the next step.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

6. “Change is the healthiest way to survive.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

7. “Keep the best, forget the rest.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

8. “What I love best in life is new starts.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

9. “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

10. “I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

11. “Think pink, but don’t wear it.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

12. “In fact, I don’t even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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13. “I never fall in love.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

14. “I think that it’s a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

15. “Stuff your brain with knowledge.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

16. “Don’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

17. “The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage – it’s okay for clothes not that great for people.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

18. “I like the idea of craziness with discipline.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

19. “I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

20. “Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!”

— Karl Lagerfeld

21. “I’m a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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23. “Music gives color to the air of the moment.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

24. “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.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

25. “Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn’t have it naked, she’ll never it clothed.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

26. “The importance of logo into today’s fashion is un! be! Lievable!”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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27. “Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

28. “Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

29. “Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

30. “Fashion designers are dictators of taste.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

31. “The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

33. “Fantasy is often better than reality. It’s much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

34. “People who can’t be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

37. “I’m surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

38. “I like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

39. “I care more about the people than about the company. That’s why I don’t want to own it. I don’t want to run a business. People do it better than I do.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

40. “The best way to know people is to work with them.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

41. “The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

42. “Fashion is what people wear not only what you see on the Runway.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

43. “I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

44. “A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

45. “I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

46. “I’m a working-class person, working with class.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

47. “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.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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49. “Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

50. “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.”

— Karl Lagerfeld