Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
KARL LAGERFELDLuxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
KARL LAGERFELDYou have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
KARL LAGERFELDWhen I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‘It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.’ This was a very healthy attitude.
KARL LAGERFELDMy job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
KARL LAGERFELDPersonality begins where comparison ends.
KARL LAGERFELDBuy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
KARL LAGERFELDDon’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability
KARL LAGERFELDI’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
KARL LAGERFELDI love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
KARL LAGERFELDYou cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur
KARL LAGERFELDThe most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
KARL LAGERFELDThese are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.
KARL LAGERFELDWhat I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
KARL LAGERFELDWhen I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
KARL LAGERFELDI like the idea of craziness with discipline.
KARL LAGERFELDYouthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
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