Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
KARL LAGERFELDSuccess nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.
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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The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.
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The purpose of life is life.
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I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I’m not a tourist.
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You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur
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With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
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Work is making a living out of being bored.
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I don’t want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven’t done. There’s no “again.” There’s only the future. I hate the past – especially my own past.
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I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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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 don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
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For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.
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I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
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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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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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Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
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Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people… the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life… they are mean and they want to kill you.
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I like everything to be washable, myself included.
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I’m a working-class person, working with class.
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I like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.
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If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.
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Change is the healthiest way to survive.
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Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.
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When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, ‘It’s not the days that are old, it’s you that’s old.’ I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.
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