I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
KARL LAGERFELDWhen 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.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
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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 don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy
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The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.
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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 think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
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Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
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You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
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Be politically correct, but please don’t bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that’s the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.
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Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
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I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.
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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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Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
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I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.
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