Karl Otto Lagerfeld was a German creative director, fashion designer, artist, photographer, and caricaturist who lived in Paris. This Karl Lagerfeld quotes will motivate you.
Best Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
- Change is the healthiest way to survive. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants. ~ Karl Lagerfeld, Karl Lagerfeld Quotes on sweatpants
- I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
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I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- Think pink, but don’t wear it. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- Personality begins where comparison ends. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- Don’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.~ Karl Lagerfeld
- Trendy is the last stage before tacky. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore commercial. ~ 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
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Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- I like the idea of craziness with discipline. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence. ~ Karl Lagerfeld ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- It’s all about taste. If you are cheap, nothing helps ~ Karl Lagerfeld ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- I only know how to play one role: me. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- Keep the best, forget the rest. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- I’m a working-class person, working with class. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
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Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn’t have it naked, she’ll never it clothed. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- I think that it’s a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women–forget about that. Forget about that. It’s a very bad way of thinking. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
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The most important piece in the house is the garbage can. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- I’m not a social person. Not that I’m not at ease. I’m pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It’s not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that’s all. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- No one wants to see curvy women. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
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I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people… the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life… they are mean and they want to kill you. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living… ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- 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. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- Extreme luxury isn’t the most bling-bling, it’s extreme refinement, which is couture at its finest. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce. ~ Karl Lagerfeld