Karl Lagerfeld Quotes - Page 2

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

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

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

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

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

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

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

The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.

I do my job like I breathe - so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.

Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.

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

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.

Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with - turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.

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

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

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

Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them