Karl Lagerfeld quotes

Born
10 September 1933 Hamburg, Germany.

Died
19 February 2019.

Occupation
Designer.

Karl Lagerfeld was a German designer.

I never look at my watch when I’m sketching!
– Karl Lagerfeld

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.
– Karl Lagerfeld

I can do whatever I want.
– Karl Lagerfeld

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.
– Karl Lagerfeld

Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
– Karl Lagerfeld

I hardly went to school.
– Karl Lagerfeld

I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
– Karl Lagerfeld

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

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

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
– Karl Lagerfeld

What I love best in life is new starts.
– Karl Lagerfeld

The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.
– Karl Lagerfeld

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
– Karl Lagerfeld

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
– Karl Lagerfeld

I don’t eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.
– Karl Lagerfeld

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.
– Karl Lagerfeld

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
– Karl Lagerfeld

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

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

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.
– Karl Lagerfeld

I’m a working-class person, working with class.
– Karl Lagerfeld

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
– Karl Lagerfeld

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.
– Karl Lagerfeld

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.
– Karl Lagerfeld

My mother did not like children.
– Karl Lagerfeld

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.
– Karl Lagerfeld

Work is making a living out of being bored.
– Karl Lagerfeld

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it’s OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
– Karl Lagerfeld

The importance of logo into today’s fashion is un! be! Lievable!
– Karl Lagerfeld

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

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
– Karl Lagerfeld

I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.
– Karl Lagerfeld