Quotes from Karl Lagerfeld

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

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.

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

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.

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

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

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

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

Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

I'm very down to Earth, I'm just not from this Earth.

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

The French say you get hungry when you're eating, and I get inspired when I'm working. It's my engine

Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.

I do my job like I breathe — so if I can't breathe I'm in trouble.

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

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, 'It's impolite; remove your glasses.' I said, 'Do I ask you to remove your bra?

Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her

Forgiveness isn't something I'm preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn't my trip.

There will never be a chanel collection without black

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

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.