KARL LAGERFELD QUOTES III

German fashion designer (1933- )

Those social networks, there's something sad about them. Is it because they don't have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don't understand it. It's like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.

KARL LAGERFELD

"Media People: Q&A With Karl Lagerfeld", Women's Wear Daily, Sep. 12, 2014


Normal people think I'm insane.

KARL LAGERFELD

"In the Now", The New Yorker, Mar. 19, 2007

Tags: insanity


Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion--it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.

KARL LAGERFELD

Vanity Fair, Feb. 1992


I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.

KARL LAGERFELD

"In the Now", The New Yorker, Mar. 19, 2007

Tags: survival


I do my job like I breathe, so if I can't breathe I'm in trouble!

KARL LAGERFELD

"In the Now", The New Yorker, Mar. 19, 2007


When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said--and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded--"It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject." This was a very healthy attitude.

KARL LAGERFELD

Vice Magazine, Feb. 28, 2010


The most important piece of furniture in a house is the garbage can.

KARL LAGERFELD

"In the Now", The New Yorker, Mar. 19, 2007


I like newspapers. Maybe the iPad is very modern and everything, and I'm not against it, but I like the physical contact. And the physical contact of metal and glass is not as sensuous as paper.

KARL LAGERFELD

"Media People: Q&A With Karl Lagerfeld", Women's Wear Daily, Sep. 12, 2014

Tags: newspapers


I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections.

KARL LAGERFELD

"Karl Lagerfeld on Diets, Sobriety, and Becoming a Nicer Person", New York Magazine, Nov. 7, 2013

Tags: identity


I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.

KARL LAGERFELD

"In the Now", The New Yorker, Mar. 19, 2007

Tags: childhood


People are very nice to me, even though I'm known for saying rude things.

KARL LAGERFELD

Huffington Post, May 28, 2013


If I was a woman in Russia I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly.

KARL LAGERFELD

"Karl Lagerfeld on Adele, the Greek crisis and M.I.A.'s middle finger", Metro