Chanel Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

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

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

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

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

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

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.

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive

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

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

Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine

Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.

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

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

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

There will never be a chanel collection without black

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

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

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?

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

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

Respect is not creative ... Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore — and then you get something out of her.

There is nothing worse than bringing up the 'good old days.' To me, that's the ultimate acknowledgment of failure.