20 Of Karl Lagerfeldโ€™s Most Savage Quotes
โ€” Updated on 15 June 2021

20 Of Karl Lagerfeldโ€™s Most Savage Quotes

โ€” Updated on 15 June 2021
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Karl Lagerfeldโ€™s unfortunate death this year caused friends and fans from around the world to reflect on the incredible life he led. As a fashion icon, Lagerfeld had to have some incredibly tough skin and witty confidence if he was going to do well. The designer led a formidable life without shame and tallied up some pretty memorable, downright savage quotes along the way. Here are 20 of the best.

  1. โ€œWhat is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolve. Just do it and shut up.โ€
  2. โ€œThere is nothing worse than bringing up the โ€˜good old days.โ€™ To me, thatโ€™s the ultimate acknowledgement of failure.โ€
  3. โ€œSummer clothes that are rumpled or relaxed drive me mad. I loathe โ€˜rumplednes,โ€™ if I can put it that way. Itโ€™s okay between the ages of 25 and 30, but unfortunately after that itโ€™s dreadful. I hate people in the street who look like theyโ€™ve raided their grandchildrenโ€™s wardrobe.โ€
  4. โ€œI get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.โ€
  5. โ€œIโ€™m a little shortsighted, and people, when theyโ€™re shortsighted, they remove their glasses and then they look like cute little dogs who want to be adopted.โ€
  6. โ€œI lost 200lb to wear suits by Hedi Slimane.โ€
  7. โ€œKate Middleton has a nice silhouette and she is the right girl for that boy. I like that kind of woman, I like romantic beauties. On the other hand, her sister struggles. I donโ€™t like the sisterโ€™s face. She should only show her back.โ€
  8. โ€œI think tattoos are horrible. Itโ€™s like living in a Pucci dress full-timeโ€
  9. โ€œI hate it when rich people try to be Communists. I think thatโ€™s obscene.โ€
  10. โ€œThere are not too many people with an opinion I care for. Iโ€™m not crazy to discuss fashion with men. I couldnโ€™t care less about their opinion.โ€
  11. โ€œEverything I say is a joke. I am a joke of myself.โ€
  12. โ€œLife is not a beauty contest, some ugly people are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people. The worst is ugly short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life โ€“ they are mean and they want to kill you.โ€
  13. โ€œ[Selfies] are this horrible thing where you are distorted. The chin is too big, the head is too small. No, this is electronic masturbation.โ€
  14. โ€œI hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.โ€
  15. โ€œIf I was a Russian woman I would be a lesbian. Russian men are not good looking.โ€
  16. โ€œWhen you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: donโ€™t get carried away โ€” itโ€™s only dresses.โ€
  17. โ€œSweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.โ€
  18. โ€œI donโ€™t know Heidi Klum. She was never known in France. Claudia Schiffer also doesnโ€™t know who she is.โ€
  19. โ€œI think Iโ€™m the easiest person to work with as long as things are the way I think they should be.โ€
  20. โ€œTrendy is the last stage before tacky.โ€

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