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.
KARL LAGERFELDWhat i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
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Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.
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I never fall in love.
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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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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 have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
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I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
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EXTREME LUXURY ISN’T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT’S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.
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Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
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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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Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I’m not a tourist.
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I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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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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