If you’re not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.
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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What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
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Don’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability
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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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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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I hate the word ‘cheap’. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
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I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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No one wants to see curvy women.
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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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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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I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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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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The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
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Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I’m not a tourist.
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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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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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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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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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Those social networks, there’s something sad about them. Is it because they don’t have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don’t understand it. It’s like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.
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Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty
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Keep the best, forget the rest.
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When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
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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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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
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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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