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.
KARL LAGERFELDNothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.
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Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
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Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
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You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
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Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
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I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
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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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I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
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Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
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Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women–forget about that. Forget about that. It’s a very bad way of thinking.
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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 was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.
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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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If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.
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When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, ‘It’s not the days that are old, it’s you that’s old.’ I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.
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