Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

I’m totally myself.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

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

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

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

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

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

Personally, I don’t wear fur.

I never played with anything like toys.

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

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

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 prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

The importance of logo into today’s fashion is un! be! Lievable!

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

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

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

I can do whatever I want.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

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

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.

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

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn’t been in fashion, I’d have been in advertising.

I hate the past – especially my own past.

My opinion can be completely different after a show.

I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

No, I never thought I would like cats.

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

I love to watch times change!

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France – I don’t know about England – that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

No one wants to see curvy women.

I’m an iPod person.

I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.

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

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

I don’t do meetings.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

I’m not a fortune-teller.

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

Work is making a living out of being bored.

I can no longer walk in the street. That’s over.

I eat next to nothing.

I don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.

I do my job like I breathe.

I don’t want to be on the Internet.

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.

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

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

I’m lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.

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

I never fall in love.

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

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.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It’s a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.