Karl Lagerfeld Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

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

2. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

3. Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

4. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

10. People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

11. Stuff your brain with knowledge.

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

13. Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

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

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

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

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

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

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

20. Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.

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

22. For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

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

24. 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?

25. I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

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

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

28. 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.

29. 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.

30. Stuff your brain with knowledge.