When I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: ‘You shouldn’t smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke.
KARL LAGERFELDWith expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn’t have it naked, she’ll never it clothed.
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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I’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.
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Personality begins where comparison ends.
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I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
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When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, ‘It’s not the days that are old, it’s you that’s old.’ I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.
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I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
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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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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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Those social networks, there’s something sad about them. Is it because they don’t have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don’t understand it. It’s like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.
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The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
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I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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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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My hair is not really white; it’s kind of grayish, and I don’t like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.
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