I only know how to play one role: me.
KARL LAGERFELDSometimes 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.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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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Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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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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Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn’t have it naked, she’ll never it clothed.
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
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Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
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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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I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
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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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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‘It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.’ This was a very healthy attitude.
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I’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.
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Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
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I’m not a social person. Not that I’m not at ease. I’m pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It’s not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that’s all.
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I don’t like sleeping with people I really love. I don’t want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.
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