Karl Lagerfeld

"Those who have the wealth to show it but hide it are the best dressers."

"Elegance is refusal."

"I am very much down to earth, just not necessarily on your earth."

"Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose."

"Memory is a way to hold onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose."

"The most important seduction tool is your language. You create the world around you with the words you use."

"I learned to read at a very early age because I wanted to read the letters that came to my mother."

"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity."

"I have always been interested in people, but I have tired of them as well."

"The difference between an ordinary person and a fashionable person is not the clothes they wear, but how they wear them."

"I made myself what I am, and I want to keep myself that way."

"Everything in life is a game. But only if you are willing to play."

"Fashion is that which seems inevitable in the moment, and yet seems impossible when you look back on it."

"I have no time for leisure. There are always things to do."

"A new version of you is possible. You will not be able to see it until you take the first step."

"Mistakes are the portal to discovery and innovation."

"You don't have to follow trends. You just have to know who you are."

"The monotony of pleasure is unbearable. We need surprise and change."

"I'm not interested in being liked. I'm interested in being respected."

"Art and design are not about decoration. They are about communication."

"If you want to be original, you must work like the others at first."

"I always say that the most important thing is not the clothes, but the person who wears them."

"It is better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you are not."

"The time for working is not the time for talking. Let your work speak for itself."

"Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself."

"I design myself, and I design my world."

"Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life."

"The real luxury is not to have much, but to waste time."

"I respect only two things: hard work and elegance."

"The essence of style is simplicity. It is not meant to be noticed."