Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
KARL LAGERFELDI don’t want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven’t done. There’s no “again.” There’s only the future. I hate the past – especially my own past.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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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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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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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Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people… the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life… they are mean and they want to kill you.
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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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Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t.
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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
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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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Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English–but are great in remembering signs.
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Think pink, but don’t wear it.
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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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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
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Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
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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 think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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