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.
KARL LAGERFELDNormal people think I’m insane.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I never fall in love.
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Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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When 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.
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Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
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I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.
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Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
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I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.
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When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
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I’m a working-class person, working with class.
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I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don’t skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.
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The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
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The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
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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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Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
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I hate the word ‘cheap’. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
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If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
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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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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
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EXTREME LUXURY ISN’T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT’S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
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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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Think pink, but don’t wear it.
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