Top 300 Karl Lagerfeld Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

152. “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

153. “The advantage of Fashion is that there is no racism.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

154. “I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I’m not a tourist.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

157. “What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

158. “Buy clothes the size you want to wear.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

159. “I like imagination – and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be – better than reality.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

160. “I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

161. “If you’re not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

164. “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

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

166. “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

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

168. “Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

169. “There is no marriage, yet, for human beings and animals. I never thought that I would fall in love like this with a cat.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

170. “Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it’s fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

172. “The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

174. “Kate Middleton has a nice silhouette and she is the right girl for that boy. I like that kind of woman, I like romantic beauties. On the other hand, her sister struggles. I don’t like the sister’s face. She should only show her back.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

175. “The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

176. “People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

177. “I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

178. “I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

179. “My innocence didn’t always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don’t have anymore. I’m inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don’t think daily life is always great. It protects me.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

180. “You cannot fake chic but you? can be chic and fake fur.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

181. “Normally, I don’t recommend me for wedding dresses – they all get a divorce.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

182. “My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

183. “I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

184. “You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans – it’s up to you.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

185. “Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion – it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you’d go nowhere.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

186. “The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

187. “My sisters were sent away because my mother thought they were boring. I was not boring.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

188. “If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

189. “I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

190. “I buy my shoes a size too small. I like the way it feels.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

191. “I don’t like the sister’s face. She should only show her back.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

192. “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

193. “I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

194. “Who buys French cars? Not me.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

195. “The best ideas I’ve had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

196. “I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

197. “I sketch in a way that people can nearly do the dresses without me coming in for a fitting. Every single detail, every proportion, every cut – everything.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

198. “You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

199. “Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

200. “When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.”

— Karl Lagerfeld