I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
KARL LAGERFELDIf you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
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The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
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I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.
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Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
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I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don’t get carried away-it’s only dresses.
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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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When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
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Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.
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My hair is not really white; it’s kind of grayish, and I don’t like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.
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Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
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I’m a working-class person, working with class.
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Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman’s jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.
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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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