Karl Lagerfeld, one of the most famous fashion designers in the world, passed away at the age of 85. He was extremely talented, but also very eccentric. More than often, he caused scandals with his statements, but he kept quoting effortlessly about anything. Below, you will find 20 of the most famous quotes he ever said.
1973 – On his bedroom:
“If you see it you will think about everything except sex, because it is the unsexiest room ever. I love unsexy bedrooms.”
1975 – On his work:
“I am a sort of vampire, taking the blood of other people.”
1978 – On his first years of living:
“When I was four I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.”
1984 – On his feelings after a fashion show:
“I’m a kind of fashion nymphomaniac who never gets an orgasm.”
2004 – On his collaboration with H&M:
“Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t.”
2006 – On music and technology:
“The iPod is genius. I have 300.”
2007 – On being a squanderer:
“If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: ‘one shouldn’t do that’ – that is bourgeois.”
2007 – On furnishing a home:
“The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.”
2007 – On his image:
“I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long.”
2008 – On the ongoing fur debate:
“The discussion of fur is childish.”
2009 – On Heidi Klum:
“I don’t know Heidi Klum. She was never known in France. Claudia Schiffer also doesn’t know who she is.”
2010 – On sunglasses:
“They’re my burka… I’m a little shortsighted, and people, when they’re shortsighted, they remove their glasses and then they look like cute little dogs who want to be adopted.”
2010 – On interview ettiquette:
“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?'”
2010 – On fame:
“You cannot fight against it. There’s a price you have to pay for fame, and people who don’t want to pay that price can get in trouble. I accepted the idea of celebrity because of a French expression: ‘You cannot have the butter and the money for the butter.'”
2010 – On political correctness:
“Be politically correct, but please don’t bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that’s the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.”
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2010 – On children:
“If I were interested in children, I would be a godfather.”
2010 – On crime:
“Frustration is the mother of crime, and so there would be much more crime without prostitutes and without porn movies.”
2010 – On Andy Warhol:
“I shouldn’t say this, but physically he was quite repulsive.”
2012 – On wedding dresses:
“Normally, I don’t recommend me for wedding dresses – they all get a divorce.”
2015 – On movies:
“I don’t go to movie theatres because I don’t want to be photographed by strangers. People bother me wherever I go. I like to imagine the world my way. I don’t want second-rate images of the world.”
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