635 Quotes by Karl Lagerfeld

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

I didn’t play with other children.

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them.

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

Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it’s important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I’m still like this.

What I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.

You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans – it’s up to you.

When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, ‘It’s not the days that are old, it’s you that’s old.’ I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.

When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don’t get carried away-it’s only dresses.