I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
KARL LAGERFELDWork is making a living out of being bored.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
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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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You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
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It’s great that in life you do something that you want to do because you like doing it and you’re not bored. I’m not bored at all. I’m even interested in lots of things, more so today than before.
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Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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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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The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
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The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.
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Normal people think I’m insane.
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I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.
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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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Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
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I hate birthdays, .. It’s more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it’s an evolution. I don’t celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.
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Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.
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Kate Middleton has a nice silhouette and she is the right girl for that boy. I like that kind of woman, I like romantic beauties. On the other hand, her sister struggles. I don’t like the sister’s face. She should only show her back.
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Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
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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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My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
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Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
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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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I like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.
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I don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans – it’s up to you.
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I hate the word ‘cheap’. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
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Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman’s jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.
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