Karl Lagerfeld
I don't even want to have things associated with my name on the internet - it's very dangerous.Collection: Names
People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality.Collection: Reality
I think it's very important what young people see in pictures or on TV or in magazines. Drugs, violence, anorexia. All of the things that I absolutely do not reference in my photos.Collection: Thinking
I don't have prejudices. I'm against taboos. But of course there are some things I'll never touch - because as a mom, there are things one doesn't want their children to be around.Collection: Mom
When I was a child, my mother always told me that you could wake up in the middle of the night and be deathly sick, so you always have to be impeccable. I laugh about it now, but I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.Collection: Mother
I see things in the middle of the night. I draw them on paper and I don't even think about it. I'm like a machine in a way - just made of some electronic stuff. Vaguely digital.Collection: Thinking
I like the present and tomorrowCollection: Tomorrow
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.Collection: Fashion
With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.Collection: Fashion
If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.Collection: Sticks
What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.Collection: Fashion
Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it's more of an evocation of what you do. It's more an evocation of seduction.Collection: Art
Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.Collection: Creativity
When I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: 'You shouldn't smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke.Collection: Beautiful
I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Fashion
If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.Collection: Mean
I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Jobs
Beauty—or the desire to be beautiful—is in itself a dangerous motivation. Someone (I forgot who) once said, ‘Does the person who loves someone for their beauty really love them?’ So don’t focus on beauty ... a respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul. It is the sum of our experiences that makes us interesting, and having been through a time in your life in which you were in a bad place (or what you perceived as a bad place) physically, can be useful. It can even be necessary.Collection: Beautiful
Beauty with character ages better than perfection.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Nature
As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.Collection: Children
I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there's no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.Collection: Jobs
The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.Collection: Beautiful
In fact, I don’t even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.Collection: Stories
The importance of logo into today’s fashion is un! be! Lievable!Collection: Fashion
Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it’s more of an evocation of what you do. It’s more an evocation of seduction.Collection: Firsts
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.Collection: Stories
Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.Collection: Stories
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.Collection: Fun
I hate leisure, except reading. I’m really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.Collection: Reading
The story with anorexic girls – nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.Collection: Stories
A book has to be easy to open and you don’t have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.Collection: Book
Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility.Collection: Fun
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.Collection: Book
I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It’s more fun to come to Paris.Collection: Fun
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.Collection: Book