Change is the healthiest way to survive.
KARL LAGERFELDI’m never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that’s the secret to doing things well.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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The purpose of life is life.
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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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Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
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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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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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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.
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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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I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
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I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
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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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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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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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