Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Lagerfeld

Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.

Karl Lagerfeld

It's never too early to care about fashion.

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.

Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion designers are dictators of taste.

Karl Lagerfeld

I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.

Karl Lagerfeld

Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?

Karl Lagerfeld

Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.

Karl Lagerfeld

Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it’s up to you.

Karl Lagerfeld

Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't.

Karl Lagerfeld

Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.

Karl Lagerfeld

I'm a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant.

Karl Lagerfeld

Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women--forget about that. Forget about that. It's a very bad way of thinking.

Karl Lagerfeld

What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.

Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.

Karl Lagerfeld

I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Karl Lagerfeld

When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.

Karl Lagerfeld

To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don't skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Karl Lagerfeld

Trendy is the last stage before tacky.

Karl Lagerfeld

If you're not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.

Karl Lagerfeld

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

Karl Lagerfeld

What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

Louis Sullivan

Form follows function.

Louis Sullivan

When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.

John Flanagan

He waited while Gilan and Will moved the cloaks experimentally, eyeing each other and studying the unusual colors, seeing how they would blend into the landscape of rock and desert that surrounded Al Shabah. All right, ladies," he said, "if you're finished with the fashion show, let's go meet the Wakir.

John F. Kennedy

We've spent half the expenditures, we've wrecked our budget on all these other domestic programs, and the only justification for it, in my opinion, to do it in the pell-mell fashion is because we hope to beat them and demonstrate that starting behind them, as we did by a couple of years, by God, we passed them. I think it would be a helluva thing for us.