Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

I feel like the worst fashion moments of the '90s were kind of the best.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Fashion anticipates.

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

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 approach fashion as an evolution. It's always changing. As you know, sometimes it changes in three months.

Fashion is ruthless the way every three months you have to think about everything all over again.

Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence. Fashion is always retro, but always on the basis of the abolition of the passé (the past): the spectral death and resurrection of forms. Its proper actuality (its 'up-to-dateness', its 'relevance') is not a reference to the present, but an immediate and total recycling.

Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.

Fashion is becoming the same thing as our devices.

...hot pink with a star done in rainbow rhinestones on the front. It was god-awful. I bought it.

I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.

Men don't wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.

The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.

Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone.

Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.

I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.

The best thing to do is just know that there's a big difference between style and fashion, and that one doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the other.

The search for the new black is one of the most elusive quests known to man. It's rumored that Christopher Columbus once searched for the new black and simply gave up. Yet every season we are convinced that some magical chromatic fabric will usurp black as the king of fashion, only to realize later that black still reigns supreme.

It is interesting how fashion filters down and we discover in the "Devil Wears Prada" that we're all prey to trends, even if we think we are not.

Fashion postulates an achrony, a time which does not exist; here the past is shameful and the present is constantly "eaten up" by the Fashion being heralded.

The models have always been the least interesting thing about fashion.

The fact that fashion goes out of fashion and then comes back into fashion based solely on what a few people somewhere think they can sell, well to me, that’s insanity.

Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.