Karl Lagerfeld

You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.

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

I love classic beauty. It__ an idea of beauty with no standard.

Never use the word __heap_. 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__ up to you.

Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs

Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.

The only love that I really believe in is a mother__ love for her children.

Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability

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

Don__ sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there__ nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

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

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

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