Top 300 Karl Lagerfeld Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

252. “I see things in the middle of the night. I draw them on paper and I don’t even think about it. I’m like a machine in a way – just made of some electronic stuff. Vaguely digital.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

253. “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

254. “I like newspapers. Maybe the iPad is very modern and everything, and I’m not against it, but I like the physical contact. And the physical contact of metal and glass is not as sensuous as paper.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

255. “The discussion of fur is childish.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

256. “I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

257. “When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

258. “If I were pretentious I would say that I’m not an average person. But really, I know how that is.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

260. “Today couture has to be expensive, but it shouldn’t look expensive.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

261. “Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

262. “The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

263. “It’s never too early to care about fashion.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

264. “I like the present and tomorrow.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

266. “One Is Never Over-Dressed OR Understand With A Little Black Dress” By Karl Lagerfeld.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

267. “I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don’t fancy having so much staff now.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

268. “What I do Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it’s up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be, could be, what it had been to something else.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

269. “There will never be a chanel collection without black.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

270. “Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?”

— Karl Lagerfeld

271. “When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don’t get carried away-it’s only dresses.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

272. “The way I talk is bizarre.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

273. “Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

274. “No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

275. “If there’s something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

276. “I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

277. “I’m trying to think of the last time I had onions.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

278. “It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

279. “I like everything to be washable, myself included.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

280. “I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

281. “I had an interview once with some German journalist – some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists – maybe a week after – and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra?”

— Karl Lagerfeld

282. “I’m like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

283. “When I was younger I wanted to be a caricaturist. In the end, I’ve become a caricature.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

284. “I have more friends in New York than Paris.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

285. “I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

286. “Some models who aren’t the most beautiful end up becoming the greatest of all time.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

287. “People are very nice to me, even though I’m known for saying rude things.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

288. “I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

289. “Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time...”

— Karl Lagerfeld

290. “I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

291. “With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

292. “Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

293. “I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

294. “Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

295. “I don’t have prejudices. I’m against taboos. But of course there are some things I’ll never touch – because as a mom, there are things one doesn’t want their children to be around.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

296. “What I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

297. “I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

298. “Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it’s important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I’m still like this.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

299. “The world is not there to please you. It’s up to you to please the world.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

300. “A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.”

— Karl Lagerfeld