If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
KARL LAGERFELDWhen I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.
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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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During the golden age of movie stars, there were plenty of actresses who were deemed unattractive at the start of their careers, but struggled and finally appeared more beautiful and more iconic. Sometimes that idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.
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I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
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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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I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I’m not a tourist.
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I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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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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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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I 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.
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It’s great that in life you do something that you want to do because you like doing it and you’re not bored. I’m not bored at all. I’m even interested in lots of things, more so today than before.
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I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.
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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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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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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.
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What I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
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If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell’s boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.
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Work is making a living out of being bored.
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Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
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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’ve survived quite a few generations. That’s because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.
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Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.
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I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.
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These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.
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