Quotes By Karl Lagerfeld

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

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

My mother did not like children.

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.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

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.

Who buys French cars? Not me.

No one wants to see curvy women.

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

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

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

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

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

I hardly went to school.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

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

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.

The way I talk is bizarre.

My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

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

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

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

Some people would like me to be round again.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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