Karl Lagerfeld citations

“Mon plus grand luxe est de n'avoir à me justifier auprès de personne.”

“Ma curiosité est insatiable, je vampirise l’air du temps.”

“When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.”

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

“I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.”

“Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.”

“The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.”

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

“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.”

“One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.”

“People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.”

“Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.”

“I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change”

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

“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”

“A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul”

“Music gives color to the air of the moment.”

“Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.”

“I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.”

“We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.”

“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.”

“In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.”

“You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur”

“Stuff your brain with knowledge.”

“When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.”

“There will never be a chanel collection without black”

“I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.”