Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Fashion anticipates.

Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.

I think quality will be increasingly important-we're moving away from a time of fast fashion. But really, the only constant in fashion is that you must keep moving forward, otherwise you'll be left behind.

Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.

Fashion is about change, don't you think?

Change is good; it's what fashion is all about.

Fashion changes. Everyone in fashion changes. I think it's important to change it up and reinvent yourself every now and again.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

I think more and more that I get to challenge myself and kind of raise the standard for myself every season. Even the term 'fashion' is about change. It's about newness. And what that newness means is different every 10 years, every five years.

Life really is a series of contrasts.

The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.

The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

There is something I think we share, which is, of course, an appreciation for Helmut Lang. I think at a certain point he really changed so many things in fashion. I'm a bit younger than Helmut, but from my point of view he provided a true entrance into this new way of thinking - not being invaded into couture.

Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion -- it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.

Fashion has a right to exist, because it permits the people to define themselves over and over again.

Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.

In fashion, the most important thing is to move on.

at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.

Earth's blackest day and earth's brightest day are only three days apart.

Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.