I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
KARL LAGERFELDI’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.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
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I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
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I think that it’s a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.
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Change is the healthiest way to survive.
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A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That’s what you need to make a legend survive.
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The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
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What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.
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Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.
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The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
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With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
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Normal people think I’m insane.
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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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I like everything to be washable, myself included.
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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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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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I never fall in love.
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The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
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When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
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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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I don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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Personality begins where comparison ends.
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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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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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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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Work is making a living out of being bored.
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