These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.
KARL LAGERFELDThose social networks, there’s something sad about them. Is it because they don’t have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don’t understand it. It’s like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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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.
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I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy
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I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
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I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.
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Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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Change is the healthiest way to survive.
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What I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
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You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
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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.
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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.
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During the golden age of movie stars, there were plenty of actresses who were deemed unattractive at the start of their careers, but struggled and finally appeared more beautiful and more iconic. Sometimes that idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.
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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
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Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty
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