Top 300 Karl Lagerfeld Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Trendy is the last stage before tacky.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

52. “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

53. “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

54. “I don’t want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven’t done. There’s no “again.” There’s only the future. I hate the past – especially my own past.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

55. “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.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

56. “There are not too many people with an opinion I care for.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

57. “The purpose of life is life.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

58. “Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it’s more of an evocation of what you do. It’s more an evocation of seduction.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

59. “If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell’s boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

60. “You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?”

— Karl Lagerfeld

61. “I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

62. “I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes – it’s about all kinds of change.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

63. “One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

65. “What I hate is nasty, ugly people.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

66. “I forget nothing and then, one day, there will be revenge. Innocence isn’t exactly everywhere. But I will say innocence also takes you far in photography.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

67. “We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst – you need them both.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

68. “We create a product nobody needs but people want. You spend more for what you really want. Some boring things you need: an ugly old car can wait, but if you have a new fashion item it cannot wait. We live on this whole idea.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

69. “I lost 200lb to wear suits by Hedi Slimane.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

70. “I have no idea of the future – never, ever. That’s what I like about fashion. It’s paradise now.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

71. “Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

72. “I didn’t play with other children.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

73. “I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

74. “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.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

75. “I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

76. “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.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

77. “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.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

78. “When I was a child, my mother always told me that you could wake up in the middle of the night and be deathly sick, so you always have to be impeccable. I laugh about it now, but I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

79. “The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

81. “The clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

82. “If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: ‘one shouldn’t do that’ – that is bourgeois.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

83. “I don’t know what ‘normal’ means, anyway.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

84. “Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

85. “These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

86. “Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

87. “Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

88. “Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

89. “I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

90. “I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I’m not interested in. So, as far as I’m concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don’t know. When I know, I don’t care because I knew how it was.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

91. “I’m always busy. You know, the more I do, the more ideas I have – that’s the funny thing. The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body builder.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

92. “I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

94. “When I wake up I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie! That’s why I sleep alone. But the funny thing is that I’m very impeccable and clean before I go to bed. It’s just like right before I’m going out.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

95. “I don’t like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

96. “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.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

97. “If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

99. “I’m German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn’t exist any more.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

100. “Normal people think I’m insane.”

— Karl Lagerfeld