With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
KARL LAGERFELDBuy 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.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.
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If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
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There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living…
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Trendy is the last stage before tacky.
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Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
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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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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.
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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.
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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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I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.
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I never fall in love.
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Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
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Don’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability
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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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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
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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’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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If you’re not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.
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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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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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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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I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
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I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
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I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
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