Quotes by Karl Lagerfeld

About Karl Lagerfeld:

Karl Lagerfeld is a German fashion designer, artist, and photographer based in Paris. He is the head designer and creative director of the fashion house Chanel as well as the Italian house Fendi and his own label fashion house. Over the decades, he has collaborated on a variety of fashion and art-related projects. He is well recognized around the world for his trademark white hair, black glasses, and high starched collars.
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I eat next to nothing.

Karl Lagerfeld

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

Karl Lagerfeld

The way I talk is bizarre.

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Some people would like me to be round again.

Karl Lagerfeld

My opinion can be completely different after a show.

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Karl Lagerfeld

My mother did not like children.

Karl Lagerfeld

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Karl Lagerfeld

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.

Karl Lagerfeld

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

Karl Lagerfeld

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

Karl Lagerfeld

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.

Karl Lagerfeld

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

Karl Lagerfeld

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

Karl Lagerfeld

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

Karl Lagerfeld

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

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Author Bio

  • NameKarl Lagerfeld
  • DescriptionGerman fashion designer
  • BornSeptember 10, 1933
  • CountryGermany; Sweden
  • ProfessionFashion Designer; Designer; Photographer; Publisher
  • AwardsVerdienstkreuz 1. Klasse Des Verdienstordens Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse Des Verdienstordens Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland