Karl Lagerfeld
41 quotes
Biography
Karl Otto Lagerfeld, also called Kaiser Karl, was a German fashion designer, photographer, and creative director.
"Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you."
"The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children."
"Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!"
"We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world."
"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."
"A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul"
"Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability"
"People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence."
"I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard."
"I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth."
"Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality."
"The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration."
"I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change"
"Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity."
"I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job."
"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."
"We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both."
"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."
"Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books."
"Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests"
"Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive"
"Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too."
"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."
"When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop."