Designer Quotes

Karl Lagerfeld

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can
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

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

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Karl Lagerfeld

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Karl Lagerfeld

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

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

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul

Karl Lagerfeld

Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Karl Lagerfeld

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Karl Lagerfeld

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests

Karl Lagerfeld

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.

Karl Lagerfeld

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

Karl Lagerfeld

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Karl Lagerfeld

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.

Karl Lagerfeld

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.

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Karl Lagerfeld

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.

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Karl Lagerfeld

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

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

Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Karl Lagerfeld

Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently

Karl Lagerfeld

You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur

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

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

Guy P. Harrison

If a beautiful sunflower is somehow supposed to be evidence of the Christian god, then what is a parasitic worm that eats children’s eyeballs evidence of?

Alexander McQueen

There is no better designer than nature.

Shawn Lukas

In a timepiece, a sweep of a second hand is so slim in a way that it doesn't wait for no man, and that's why we choose to conceive things from the heart.

Karl Lagerfeld

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

Shawn Lukas

There are two characters in me: a doodler and a tuner. And the only thing that makes me go crazy is when they both fight for their turn.

Shawn Lukas

It's a cute little studio apartment that has just what I need: a bed, a couch, a table, a chair, and a coffee-maker.

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