As 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.
KARL LAGERFELDIt’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.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women–forget about that. Forget about that. It’s a very bad way of thinking.
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Sometimes it’s easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don’t have the idea.
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I never fall in love.
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I only know how to play one role: me.
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The reason American cars don’t sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That’s why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.
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Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.
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If someone gives me a to-do list, I say ‘thank you, this is nice.’ One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.
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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.
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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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Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
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I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
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Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
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Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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