Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

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.

It's easy to take the shortcut and use animal skins. But I think animal skins look tired. They're not very innovative. They're old-fashioned. And great fashion should be something new.

I don't think there is the same space for fashion designers to create like Yves was doing it. So, it's that he's one of the last, great geniuses in fashion.

I love fashion because it's plugged into the zeitgeist, so it's always changing. Thirty years ago, I could never have predicted I'd be where I am today, so I know I don't know what's going to happen in the next five years or the next 20 years. I have my predictions—I'm sure technology will continue to have an impact on fashion, particularly the way people shop. 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.

I love all vintage-everything, really. I love fashion. I've always loved it. And the fifties, I've always loved.

Fashion goes in only one direction -forward- and I am a firm believer in thinking that way too.

Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away...His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion.

The latest fashion… is absolutely necessary for a painting. It’s what matters most.

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.

I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.

As I've said a million times, I'm obsessed with Liya Kebede's LemLem line. The pieces, made by artisans in her native Ethiopia, are perfect for summer! I'm also a big fan of jewelry line Lulu Frost. Designer Lisa Salzer and I have been friends forever, and I love how she incorporates vintage pieces into her jewelry.

I always felt it was weird, that retro thing where guys showed up in zoot suits and tried to talk as if they were from some other time.

I've got a lot of '70s vintage. I'm a huge vintage junkie.

I love '60s styles.

I like looking at clothes, and I like going to shows and seeing new, fashion-forward stuff.

There are three fashion periods: the past, the present and Mae West.

I love vintage clothes. I have a real passion which probably comes from the days of my mum who had this great dress up box that she put all her clothes from the 60s and 70s in - platform shoes and jumpsuits and boots.

I think maybe that as time goes by there will be more newness but because I was part of what it was before it's not like coming into a house and saying it's all about me. I don't feel like that. It really is all about McQueen and the things that he was trying to say and about moving that forward, making it relevant, making it desirable, making it into what people want to wear.

The thing that I really love about the 80s is, there was a sense of hand made-ness about the fashion then. You could have a pair of jeans and dump some bleach on them, and make them something that was really trendy for that era.

I love the silhouettes of the '50s that were feminine and womanly without being too revealing. I've always gravitated towards that kind of sense of style and fashion.

I think the best way to invite people into the conversation is to just create something beautiful out of love, and people naturally gravitate towards a new way of looking at fashion.

I think fashion in motion is going to happen. I think that's the way things are going, but there are people who will still want to see a picture and to be able to hold it.

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night.