For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.
KARL LAGERFELDBooks are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
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The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.
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I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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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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The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
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I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
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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’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
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During the golden age of movie stars, there were plenty of actresses who were deemed unattractive at the start of their careers, but struggled and finally appeared more beautiful and more iconic. Sometimes that idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.
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Think pink, but don’t wear it.
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What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
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I am physically allergic to flip-flops
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When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
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I don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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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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