I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
KARL LAGERFELDForgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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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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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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I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
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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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One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.
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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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I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
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I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
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Personality begins where comparison ends.
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If you’re not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.
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My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
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I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
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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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Be politically correct, but please don’t bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that’s the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.
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