Top 300 Karl Lagerfeld Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “I’ve only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They’re all I need, and the rest I can do without.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

252. “I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It’s more fun to come to Paris.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

253. “I also do political cartoons, but a lot of them must stay, as they say, under the coat. But they are very fun to do, and in France, we have a good subject at the moment.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

254. “Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 – Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

255. “No, I never thought I would like cats.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

257. “The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it’s amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It’s another concept. It’s much more work.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

258. “I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

259. “I like the present and tomorrow.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

260. “If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

261. “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

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

263. “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

264. “The discussion of fur is childish.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

268. “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

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

271. “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

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

276. “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

277. “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

278. “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

279. “The way I talk is bizarre.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

288. “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

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

300. “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