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.
KARL LAGERFELDWhat I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
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The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
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The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.
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I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I’m not a tourist.
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I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
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I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
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I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
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I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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It’s up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible. It’s a question of will and discipline.
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Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people… 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… they are mean and they want to kill you.
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If you’re not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.
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I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there’s no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.
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