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Portrait of Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld

(1933–2019) Costume Designer Germany

426 quotes in 1274 categories

A black diamond that never gets cut is used as a metaphor for being rare and uncommercial. Lagerfeld’s sayings argue that talking about fur in a meat‑eating world is childish. He also says design should happen as naturally as breathing, without thinking about it.

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Karl Lagerfeld was a costume designer from Germany, best known for Karl Lagerfeld.

Quick Facts About Karl Lagerfeld

Born: September 10, 1933
Died: February 19, 2019
Nationality: Germany
Profession: Costume Designer
Notable works: Karl Lagerfeld

About Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld, also known as Kaiser Karl, was a German fashion designer, photographer, and creative director.

Awards & Honors

Berliner Bär Lucky Strike Designer Award Commander of the Legion of Honour Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany CFDA Lifetime Achievement Award

Quotes by Karl Lagerfeld

Keep the best, forget the rest.

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I do my job like I breathe.

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Normal people think I'm insane.

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The iPod is genius. I have 300.

Fashion

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No one wants to see curvy women.

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I don't do meetings.

Meetings

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I hardly went to school.

Education

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Black, like white, is the best color!

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

Fashion

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What I love best in life is new starts.

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Truth is only a question of point of view.

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Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

Fashion

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Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.

Age

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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

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Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.

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

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People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.

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I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things…

Bored

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Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.

Foreigners

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I care more about the people than about the company. That's why I don't want to own it. I don't want to…

Business

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

Eating

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The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.

Best things

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

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

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A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and…

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Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing…

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Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning…

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I don't want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven't done. There's no "again."…

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When I was a child, my mother always told me that you could wake up in the middle of the night and…

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We create a product nobody needs but people want. You spend more for what you really want; some boring things you need:…

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They're my burka... I'm a little shortsighted, and people, when they're shortsighted, they remove their glasses and then they look like cute…

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The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece.…

Amusement

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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,…

Actresses

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I must say, some are not very beautifully made. They’re coffee-table books for people who drink alcohol. I have nothing against coffee-table…

Alcohol

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Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the…

Accidents

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Beauty—or the desire to be beautiful—is in itself a dangerous motivation. Someone (I forgot who) once said, ‘Does the person who loves…

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I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When…

Animal

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I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a…

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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second. The Beatles, The Rolling…

Albums

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I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of…

Artist

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Karl Lagerfeld by topic

Fashion (90) People (73) Inspirational (53) Love (38) Time (33) Thinking (31) Life (29) Hate (24) Ideas (19) Clothes (19) Children (18) World (16) Work (15) Today (15)