Top 300 Karl Lagerfeld Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

202. “Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it ‘the new modesty.’”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

204. “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

205. “Sometimes the idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

207. “If someone gives me a to-do list, I say ‘thank you, this is nice.’ One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

208. “There are nearly 30% of young people who are too fat. So let’s take care of the zillions of the too fat before we talk about the percentage that’s left.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

209. “Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

210. “I’m not crazy to discuss fashion with men. I couldn’t care less about their opinion.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

211. “Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

212. “I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

213. “I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

214. “For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

215. “I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

216. “T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

217. “When I was four, I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

218. “It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

219. “Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

220. “Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

221. “Don’t use expensive clothes as a screen for your personal doubts. Be proud of yourself.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

222. “I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

223. “Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

224. “People in magazines are 50% bimbo and 50% pregnant women.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

225. “Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

226. “Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

227. “To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don’t skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

228. “The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

229. “When things become too popular they are always fading away for something else.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

230. “People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

231. “I do my job like I breathe.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

232. “Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with – turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

233. “The story with anorexic girls – nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

234. “The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

235. “I don’t speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

236. “A book has to be easy to open and you don’t have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

237. “Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

238. “We built everything – toilets included. I think those islands in the middle of nowhere are quite poetic. It’s kind of an Oriental Atlantis.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

239. “I’m very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it’s not exactly the same thing.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

240. “You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

241. “If you attach no importance to weight problems, if not being able to wear new, trendy small-sized clothes does not cause you any regret, this book is not for you.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

242. “I don’t even want to have things associated with my name on the internet – it’s very dangerous.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

243. “Foreigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

244. “I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

245. “My life is based on change. What I say is OK for the next ten minutes, then I change my mind.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

246. “Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

247. “The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

248. “No, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

249. “My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

250. “I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.”

— Karl Lagerfeld