Top 300 Karl Lagerfeld Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I am a sort of vampire, taking the blood of other people.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

102. “I do my job like I breathe – so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

103. “You know, I don’t ask myself too much how. I just do it.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

104. “What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

105. “I can’t wait for the iPhone 6. It’s my only ambition in life to have it quickly.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

106. “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.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

107. “You cannot be creative with people around you.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

108. “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.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

109. “I’ve survived quite a few generations. That’s because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

110. “For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

111. “I always loved advertising. If I hadn’t been in fashion, I’d have been in advertising.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

112. “Virgos are very faithful. I’m a faithful friend. I’m a faithful lover.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

113. “Absurdity and anti – absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

114. “I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

115. “I am a living label. My name is Labelfeld not Lagerfeld.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

116. “Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

117. “Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

118. “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.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

119. “I don’t know Heidi Klum. She was never known in France. Claudia Schiffer also doesn’t know who she is.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

120. “I don’t like sleeping with people I really love. I don’t want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

121. “People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

122. “I am physically allergic to flip-flops.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

123. “Beauty with character ages better than perfection.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

124. “We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

125. “Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

126. “Black, like white, is the best color!”

— Karl Lagerfeld

127. “Lana del Rey is not bad at all. She looks very much like a modern-time singer. In her photos she is beautiful. Is she a construct with all her implants? She’s not alone with implants.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

128. “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.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

129. “I like chocolate. I don’t eat it, but I like the smell of it. People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose. I would love to have a perfume based on chocolate.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

130. “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.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

131. “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.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

132. “Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

133. “Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

134. “The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

135. “Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

136. “I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

137. “Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

138. “As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything – not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

139. “I hate leisure, except reading. I’m really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

140. “I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed!”

— Karl Lagerfeld

141. “Fur is not murder, but it is quite expensive.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

142. “Work is making a living out of being bored.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

143. “My childhood was endless – from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

144. “Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

145. “You have to lead your life according to your ideas. Spend all your money and live life in line with what you are fighting for. I hate it when rich people try to be Communists. I think that’s obscene.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

146. “I only know how to play one role: me.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

147. “I’m never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that’s the secret to doing things well.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

148. “If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

149. “I have a guest house because I don’t want people in my home.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

150. “Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.”

— Karl Lagerfeld