Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
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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The clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.
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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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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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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
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The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.
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I am physically allergic to flip-flops
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Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman’s jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.
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I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
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The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can’t be expected to be taken that seriously.
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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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The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
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When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
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What I love best in life is new starts.
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The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
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