Karl Lagerfeld Quotes (60 Quotes)

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

What I hate most in life are people who are not really the peach of the day but who want to be young and sexy. You can fool nobody. There is a moment when you have to accept that somebody else is younger and fresher and hotter. Life is not a beauty contest.

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

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.

Because it's very clean, very impeccable but then it's all inspired by the legions and nobles of the North. The hair is done like a Munch painting, and the things are inspired by the music of Grieg.

The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble no design, no desire.

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.

This kind of pastry, yes. This is what my favorite thing, what I really like. Also, extremely fine French cooking was never the thing I preferred.

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.

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

There is a sort of melancholia which I find quite elegant after the 'bimbo years'.

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.

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.

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.

I think that she is one of the new stars, and she expresses well the look of the youth of the middle 90s. She looks like a school girl with no makeup, but she can be very sophisticated in her photos. She can do everything. She is like an actress. She can do the ingenue and la femme fatale, but in a modern way. It does not look like some old thing on her.

It does not worry me personally - I like communication and visibility - but then I don't have to think about commerce. I like the idea of seeing it everywhere. Designers can't live in an ivory tower. And to copy well is as difficult now as it was in the past.

They suddenly opened like an explosion - it was an idea I didn't look for - it came to me,

(Shoes are) not that high. The shoes are in a matte metal nylon, old gold mesh with black rubber heels, like little squares or olives.

In the streets of Paris, you see more long dresses in the summer than you see in the winter, because all the winter long used to be heavy, heavy material, but now they are different. They are open. They are pleated ... They can move in it. They are not something uncomfortable and impossible for daily life.

Everything is about cut. But worse than couture cuts. The dresses from far away, you think that it is a little T-shirt. And then you get near to it, you are scared by the craftsmanship put into that dress.

It's all the delicate silver and gold jewelry what is there like a thread. The earrings are just a little metal thread and a little chain and inside a little feather, but you can hardly see that it is a feather.

I think it's great, ... It shows the product in a very elegant, beautiful way. My favorite detail is the staircase. I'm mad for the staircase because of the proportions, the materials used, the virtual waterfall and all that. Marino reinvented the store in a modern way.

Some have a little balloon touch, but you can always see through. So without being naked, you can see the body. So the clothes float around the body in a way. Everything's very light, light, light. The main thing is weightless, weightless, weightless.

There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

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

My family is from there. I thought it was my moment in time to show a little of what this part of Europe is all about -- the poetry, the inspiration, the art and the spirit and the feeling of that area.

I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Some people would like me to be round again.

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

It's the revival of color, movement, liberty. It's fashion with less intellectual pretension. It's very down-to-earth and not at all up-to-the-moon.

If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

I hate the notion of a second line. It's condescending and patronizing.

First, don't forget Germany after the war was not the most exciting place. I didn't even know that one could make a living in fashion.

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.

This is what I think is modern. It's like wearing a couture jacket with a pair of jeans.

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.

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

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.

My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

When I was - yes, when I was a child, yes because in school we could make a choice between ballroom dancing and gym and I chose ballroom dancing.

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

If I lose even half a pound, I have two holes here in the face. I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

Personality begins where comparison ends.

The girl is not selling her private life, but her image,

No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.

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.

Cha Cha, I love. I was a champion in Cha Cha, world. I even remember very well and I do very well the Bolero. I don't know if you remember that one.