My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
KARL LAGERFELDAs 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.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
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When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don’t get carried away-it’s only dresses.
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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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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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The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.
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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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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
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Stuff your brain with knowledge.
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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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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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Personality begins where comparison ends.
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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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EXTREME LUXURY ISN’T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT’S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.
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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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I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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