Karl Lagerfeld Quotations

I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

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.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.

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

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

I don't want to be on the Internet.

People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.

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.

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

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

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

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

My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.

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

I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

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

I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

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

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

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

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

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

You cannot be creative with people around you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.

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

I hate the past - especially my own past.

I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

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.

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

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

I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind.

Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

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

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

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

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know.

I'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

No, I never thought I would like cats.

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

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

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

My hair is not really white; it's kind of grayish, and I don't like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.

There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - don't want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My opinion can be completely different after a show.

If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

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

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

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

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

No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.

Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

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

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

Some people would like me to be round again.

We started a shape and we have to continue it also in shoes, in jewelry in everything, because things have to be current.

There is a softer, romantic tough by some of the prints and by the colors. It's not harsh. Some is body-conscious. Some is completely fluid.

My family is from there. I thought it was my moment in time to show a little of what this part of Europe is all about -- the poetry, the inspiration, the art and the spirit and the feeling of that area.

Maybe there's a little '70s touch, ... One has to find something,

kind of flesh colored leather stockings more than boots.

Italian craftsmanship is really our treasure. So we're very proud of that and we try to do everything by hand.

Some have a little balloon touch, but you can always see through. So without being naked, you can see the body. So the clothes float around the body in a way. Everything's very light, light, light. The main thing is weightless, weightless, weightless.

It does not worry me personally - I like communication and visibility - but then I don't have to think about commerce. I like the idea of seeing it everywhere. Designers can't live in an ivory tower. And to copy well is as difficult now as it was in the past.

Normal people think I'm insane.

Filming the girl was a really nasty trick,

Every coat is different and in every kind of material,

Everything is about cut. But worse than couture cuts. The dresses from far away, you think that it is a little T-shirt. And then you get near to it, you are scared by the craftsmanship put into that dress.

They suddenly opened like an explosion - it was an idea I didn't look for - it came to me,