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.
KARL LAGERFELDI like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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Sometimes it’s easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don’t have the idea.
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If someone gives me a to-do list, I say ‘thank you, this is nice.’ One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.
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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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Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
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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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Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t.
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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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I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
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I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
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If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell’s boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.
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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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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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Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
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Trendy is the last stage before tacky.
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Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans – it’s up to you.
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I’ve survived quite a few generations. That’s because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.
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I’m not a social person. Not that I’m not at ease. I’m pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It’s not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that’s all.
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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
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Personality begins where comparison ends.
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I only know how to play one role: me.
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The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.
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I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.
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Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
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A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That’s what you need to make a legend survive.
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The reason American cars don’t sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That’s why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.
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