Karl Lagerfeld Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.”

“Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.”

“I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.”

“I'm a working-class person, working with class.”

“I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.”

“I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.”

“Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.”

“The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.”

“Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.”