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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Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her

Karl Lagerfeld

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, ...

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Karl Lagerfeld

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea d...

Karl Lagerfeld

Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.

Karl Lagerfeld

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

Karl Lagerfeld

If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois.

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Karl Lagerfeld

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.

Karl Lagerfeld

I love to watch times change!

Karl Lagerfeld

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.

Karl Lagerfeld

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.

Karl Lagerfeld

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.

Karl Lagerfeld

I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

Karl Lagerfeld

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Karl Lagerfeld

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

Karl Lagerfeld

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

Karl Lagerfeld

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

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.

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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

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I don't have any stress. I'm very lucky. I live a very healthy life.

Karl Lagerfeld

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