Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

I hate birthdays, .. It's more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it's an evolution. I don't celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.

A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That's what you need to make a legend survive.

If you're not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.

EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.

I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

I don't know what "normal" means, anyway.

Normal people think I'm insane.

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.

When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.

Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.

Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.

I like everything to be washable, myself included.

I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

Fashion designers are dictators of taste.

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

I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.

Think pink, but don't wear it.

These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

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.

I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

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

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

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

I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

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

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.

People are very nice to me, even though I'm known for saying rude things.

There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living...

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

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.

Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.

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.

I don't want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven't done. There's no "again." There's only the future. I hate the past - especially my own past.

Keep the best, forget the rest.

It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.

Virgos are very faithful. I'm a faithful friend. I'm a faithful lover.

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

I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there's no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.

Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.

I forget nothing and then, one day, there will be revenge. Innocence isn't exactly everywhere. But I will say innocence also takes you far in photography.

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.

Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.

The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.

I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy