Karl Lagerfeld Fashion Quotations

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

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

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

The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.

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

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

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

It's the revival of color, movement, liberty. It's fashion with less intellectual pretension. It's very down-to-earth and not at all up-to-the-moon.

Forget about your folklore. I can take a few inspirations, but I can certainly not do an homage. That's not my trip. I'm a fashion vampire. I take what I need and I leave the rest.

My sisters were sent away because my mother thought they were boring. I was not boring.

I have no idea of the future -- never, ever. That's what I like about fashion. It's paradise now.

Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion.

Fashion is what people wear not only what you see on the Runway

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.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

I'm rather pro-prostitution, I admire people who do it. It can't be much fun. Thank goodness for it. People need relief or they become murderers.

I lost 200lb to wear suits by Hedi Slimane

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

Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion -- it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.

We create a product nobody needs but people want. You spend more for what you really want. Some boring things you need: an ugly old car can wait, but if you have a new fashion item it cannot wait. We live on this whole idea.

I’m not crazy to discuss fashion with men. I couldn’t care less about their opinion.

The advantage of Fashion is that there is no racism

Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well.

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag.

I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive

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

Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue

The iPod is genius. I have 300.

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur

With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.

Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.

It's never too early to care about fashion.

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

Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.

Fashion designers are dictators of taste.

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

Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?

Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.

Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it’s up to you.

Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't.

Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.

I'm a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant.

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.

What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.

Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.

I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.

To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don't skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

Trendy is the last stage before tacky.

If you're not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.

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.

These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.

What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.

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

I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.