Karl Lagerfeld

"The joy of luxury is the ability to transform things."

"If you are not fashionable, you are dead."

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

"Work hard. Be professional. Respect people."

"Fashion is an expression of the individual."

"I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did was an experiment."

"The powerful presence of an image is the strongest and safest testimony."

"Luxury is the easiest thing in the world to understand, but the hardest thing in the world to achieve."

"Elegance is a discipline of life."

"Fashion is the best excuse to express yourself."

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

"To design is to reinvent the world."

"I only do what I cannot do."

"Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you."

"A good dress is a passport to happiness."

"The most beautiful makeup is a smile."

"Tears are a sign of the heart not understanding the head."

"Forget everything, start anew and design better."

"I cut my hair when I need a change."

"Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream."

"If you have three hundred people in your system, three thousand is impossible."

"I like things simple."

"Style is a reflection of your attitude and personality."

"Everything that is not fashion is ugly."

"I only like models who I can do real things with."

"Fashion is not beauty, fashion is about style."

"Modesty is a disease."

"All this waste of human potential depresses me profoundly."

"Chanel No. 5 is not a fragrance, it is a perfume."

"I have always been thinking about the future, not being stuck in the past."