RS designer

[u/AnnaKarenikitten]

[u/goxha]

King

[u/goxha → u/goxha]

Plus my favorite photo of him, & there are many contenders

[u/strawberry-fawn → u/goxha]

[u/Prestigious-Hotel263 → u/goxha]

Nicole is top 10 of all time.

[u/Cool_Ad3513 → u/goxha]

King? Uh no, he's a disgusting and vile person.

[u/MortgageAutomatic457 → u/Cool_Ad3513]

eat a snickers

[u/goxha → u/Cool_Ad3513]

I repeat.

Contributed more good via beauty to the world than his finger-waggers ever could dream of

[u/goxha]

Another I love from him;

“Please don’t say I work hard. Nobody is forced to do this job and if they don’t like it, they should do another one. If it’s too much, do something else. But don’t start doing it and then say, ‘Aaaah, it’s too much’. Because a lot of people depend on it. What we do at Chanel, thousands of people work on these things; these things are sold in hundreds and hundreds of shops all over the world. People like the big machine, and the money the big machine involves, but the effort... Then, suddenly, they become artists. They are too weak. Too fragile. Non. We have to be tough. We cannot talk about our suffering. People buy dresses to be happy, not to hear about somebody who suffered over a piece of taffeta.“

A charming & unique outlook among the self-seriousness of his peers. Interesting to compare this attitude to the other greats that were so clearly tortured by their calling like Galliano & McQueen. Karl chose it, it chose them, perhaps.

[u/goxha → u/goxha]

• “Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive.”
• “What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.”
• “Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll be all finished.”
• “When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.”
• “Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous, and unfair.”
• “As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything—not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.”
• “A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul.”
• “The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.”
• “Those social networks, there’s something sad about them…It’s like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies… They are this horrible thing where you are distorted. The chin is too big, the head is too small. No, this is electronic masturbation.”
• “Normally, I don’t recommend me for wedding dresses—they all get a divorce.”
• “There was once a designer in Paris who said, ‘My dresses are only for intelligent women.’ She went out of business, so maybe there were only idiots. In fact, it was not clever for her to say that. I design for the people who like it.”
• “Respect is not creative...Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore—and then you get something out of her.”

Beautiful mind. It is no coincidence that the Diet Prada attitude towards fashion ramped up & eventually prevailed soon after he died.

[u/sexthrowa1 → u/goxha]

It’s a good quote but Galliano and McQueen were leagues ahead of him in terms of creativity. He understood Chanel but he was not that guy.

[u/goxha → u/sexthrowa1]

I personally agree, they were of another world, pulling things out beyond most of our imaginations. In comparison I think Karl mostly worked in familiar elements & codes executed in a way you had never seen, with unique precision & flare.

But Karl died at 85 (He was at times so evasive about his age that there is debate about this lol), & was creating until the very end. Whereas McQueen died young by his own hand, & Galliano’s addiction progressed & robbed him of everything, both just a few years out from their “peak” in critical acclaim. Were their heights worth the cost? For us, maybe it is an easier yes, but who knows what they or their families would say. This is why I think their creations were more driven by compulsion & necessity rather than a repeated choice to continue - I imagine they saw no other way, & that because they poured everything they had into their craft, the criticism & short term memory of the industry would’ve been much more hurtful.

Related Karl quotes: “Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.” “I don’t believe in lifetime achievement, for me it is all about the next collection.”

He was running a marathon, & it seems to have worked in sustaining himself.

[u/dukeofdamnation]

I love him, I love his quote about short men: “The worst is ugly short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life - to be born short. I have never been friends with a short man in my life. Don't trust them; they are mean, and they want to kill you.”

[u/AnnaKarenikitten → u/dukeofdamnation]

God, that’s good

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Because it’s mean 

[u/itsck_ → u/dukeofdamnation]

wtf man

[u/FancyRobot]

He was fat then changed his entire diet to drinking a case of diet coke a day and nothing else basically. I can appreciate that level of discipline/insanity

[u/yearningforkindness]

if anyone is midly interested in fashion there's a book that compiles his 40 years at chanel. it's an awesome book

[u/VinsmokeDplayer → u/yearningforkindness]

What’s it called?

[u/SuzVision]

I love Karlisms and I’m old enough to remember when he was fat.

[u/internet_starved]

Love these. Not a Karl quote but a Rick Owens one that resonates with me ever since I saw it on tumblr:

”Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead.”

[u/NoSundae6904 → u/internet_starved]

Ironically I think rick and karl would but heads over things, like Rick is pretty big for making sweatpants and other unfashionable clothing into fashion.

[u/Original_Data1808 → u/internet_starved]

Fr I was overweight and have lost 25lbs and the more I lose the more I realize that the body is the outfit 90% of the time

[u/strawberry-fawn]

I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion

he’s so real

[u/Tricky_Stress8672]

well karl youd be rolling in your grave today

[u/ANEMIC_TWINK → u/Tricky_Stress8672]

he's looking down smiling at thin Adele

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hahaha

[u/softerhater]

Rip. Chanel is not the same after him etc

[u/YouGotRedOnYou]

Karl hosting K109 on GTA IV was peak

[u/jaldoweffers → u/YouGotRedOnYou]

I remember reading that he had a lot of fun making it and loved that he was in a GTA game lol

[u/Prestigious-Art-9758]

It’s too bad what they’re doing with his name and brand…

[u/DIORADDICT]

I thought Halston was RS designer

[u/AnnaKarenikitten → u/DIORADDICT]

There can be more than one

[u/DIORADDICT → u/AnnaKarenikitten]

True

[u/OrchidApprehensive33]

I love him

[u/kallocain-addict]

the sweatpants one is goated with the sauce

[u/AnnaKarenikitten → u/kallocain-addict]

I’m volunteering in a middle school right now, and basically all the kids wear sweatpants. I wore a skirt the other day, and someone said I looked “very European”, which I guess just means wearing something other than sweatpants or jeans

[u/KantCancelMe → u/AnnaKarenikitten]

Is it because they're fat or because dressing slobbily is fashionable now?

[u/AnnaKarenikitten → u/KantCancelMe]

The latter, actually

[u/dukeofdamnation → u/kallocain-addict]

I would buy sweatpants that say “sign of defeat” on the ass

[u/youthroughblackice]

Slide 2 is pure gospel

[u/karoda]

There's an excellent show about him on Hulu(?) called Becoming Karl Lagerfeld. Truly amazing show featuring multiple good old fashioned devious gays.

[u/Substantial_Bit_8109]

Based af

[u/helllbitch]

"The Karl Lagerfeld Diet" is a literary masterpiece

[u/Theheroinmother666]

heavily disagree with #2

[u/AnnaKarenikitten → u/Theheroinmother666]

Karl does not care

[u/youaremuda]

rest in peace kaiser

[u/rs_x-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Get this nonsense outta here

[u/FollowingOk8090]

Um, he's wrong. There are some very hot/beautiful Russian men. (I'm dating one.)