If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell’s boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.
KARL LAGERFELDYouthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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Trendy is the last stage before tacky.
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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
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Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women–forget about that. Forget about that. It’s a very bad way of thinking.
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Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman’s jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.
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What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.
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Don’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability
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I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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I’m not a social person. Not that I’m not at ease. I’m pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It’s not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that’s all.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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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.
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I hate the word ‘cheap’. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
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What I love best in life is new starts.
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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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I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
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Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn’t have it naked, she’ll never it clothed.
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Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
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I like the idea of craziness with discipline.
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Those 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.
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Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
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Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t.
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