Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Otto Lagerfeld was a German creative director, artist, photographer and caricaturist who lived in Paris. He was known as the creative director of the French luxury fashion house Chanel (from 1983 until his death), as well as creative director of the Italian fur and leather goods fashion house Fendi and his own eponymous fashion label. Over the decades, he collaborated on a variety of fashion and art-related projects.
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“I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.”
Karl Lagerfeld
“Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.”
Karl Lagerfeld
“We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.”
Karl Lagerfeld
“Music gives color to the air of the moment.”
Karl Lagerfeld
“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
Karl Lagerfeld
“There will never be a chanel collection without black”
Karl Lagerfeld
“Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests”
Karl Lagerfeld
“Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive”
Karl Lagerfeld
“A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul”
Karl Lagerfeld
“The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine”
Karl Lagerfeld
“For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them”
Karl Lagerfeld
“Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her”
Karl Lagerfeld
“Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently”
Karl Lagerfeld
“Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs”
Karl Lagerfeld
“Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.”
Karl Lagerfeld
“I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.”
Karl Lagerfeld
“Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability”
Karl Lagerfeld
“I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change”
Karl Lagerfeld
“You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur”
Karl Lagerfeld
“I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.”
Karl Lagerfeld
“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.”
Karl Lagerfeld
“The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.”
Karl Lagerfeld