#karl-lagerfeld

"I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon."

"We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world."

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

"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."

"Stuff your brain with knowledge."

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

"People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work."

"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?"

"Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality."

"I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job."

"The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children."

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

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