Quotes from Karl Lagerfeld

Normally, I don't recommend me for wedding dresses – they all get a divorce.

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

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

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

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

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

There is no marriage, yet, for human beings and animals. I never thought that I would fall in love like this with a cat.

The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

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

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.

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.

I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

I love classic beauty. It's an idea of beauty with no standard.

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

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.

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

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.