Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
KARL LAGERFELDDon’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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What I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
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I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don’t skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.
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Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t.
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I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy
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The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
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The purpose of life is life.
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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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What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
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Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
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I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I’m not a tourist.
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Stuff your brain with knowledge.
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I like the idea of craziness with discipline.
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I am physically allergic to flip-flops
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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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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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Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny.
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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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Change is the healthiest way to survive.
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As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything – not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.
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I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
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A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
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The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.
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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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The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
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