Quotes from Karl Lagerfeld

I send notes. I'm not a chambermaid whom you can ring at every moment. Today, you know, most people act like they work at a switchboard in a hotel.

Ce n'est pas parce qu'un livre n'a pas de succès qu'il est forcément bon.

I'm not crazy to discuss fashion with men. I couldn't care less about their opinion.

If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don't say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois.

I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.

Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.

My sisters were sent away because my mother thought they were boring. I was not boring.

You have to be impeccable - I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

I'm very much down to earth, just not this earth.

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

My hair is not really white; it's kind of grayish, and I don't like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.

I'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.

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

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

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

A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That's what you need to make a legend survive.