635 Quotes by Karl Lagerfeld

Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.

If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.

Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.

When I wake up I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie! That's why I sleep alone. But the funny thing is that I'm very impeccable and clean before I go to bed. It's just like right before I'm going out.

My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can't be expected to be taken that seriously.

When I was a child, my mother always told me that you could wake up in the middle of the night and be deathly sick, so you always have to be impeccable. I laugh about it now, but I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.

If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.