Top 300 Karl Lagerfeld Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Normal people think I’m insane.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

102. “I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

111. “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

112. “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

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

114. “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

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

120. “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

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

122. “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

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

124. “No one wants to see curvy women.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

126. “Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

130. “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

131. “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

132. “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

133. “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

134. “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

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

141. “I’m rather pro-prostitution, I admire people who do it. It can’t be much fun. Thank goodness for it. People need relief or they become murderers.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

142. “In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

144. “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

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

146. “Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

147. “The iPod is genius. I have 300.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

149. “Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

150. “I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.”

— Karl Lagerfeld