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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If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
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What I love best in life is new starts.
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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
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Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
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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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I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
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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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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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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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Don’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability
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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
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I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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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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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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You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur
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Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English–but are great in remembering signs.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
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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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I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny.
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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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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 am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
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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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The clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.
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