Top 300 Karl Lagerfeld Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

153. “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

154. “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

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

159. “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

160. “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

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

163. “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

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

165. “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

166. “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

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

171. “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

172. “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

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

179. “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

180. “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

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

183. “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

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

185. “Who buys French cars? Not me.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

193. “La mode n’est ni morale, ni amorale, mais elle est faite pour remonter le moral.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

194. “I think it’s very important what young people see in pictures or on TV or in magazines. Drugs, violence, anorexia. All of the things that I absolutely do not reference in my photos.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

195. “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

196. “Sometimes it’s easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don’t have the idea.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

198. “I don’t eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

199. “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

200. “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