Quotes By Karl Lagerfeld

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

My opinion can be completely different after a show.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

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.

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

I'm totally myself.

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

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

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

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.

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

Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.

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

Work is making a living out of being bored.

Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.

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

You cannot be creative with people around you.

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.

What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before.

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

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'

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

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

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.