Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.
KARL LAGERFELDPeople 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.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
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The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
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Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it’s more of an evocation of what you do. It’s more an evocation of seduction.
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Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
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With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
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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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EXTREME LUXURY ISN’T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT’S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.
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What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.
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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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When I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: ‘You shouldn’t smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke.
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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 have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
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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.
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I think that it’s a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.
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You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
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