I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
KARL LAGERFELDThe 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.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
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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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No one wants to see curvy women.
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It’s up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible. It’s a question of will and discipline.
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I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don’t get carried away-it’s only dresses.
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Think pink, but don’t wear it.
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I like everything to be washable, myself included.
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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’m never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that’s the secret to doing things well.
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I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.
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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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I don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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My hair is not really white; it’s kind of grayish, and I don’t like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.
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The purpose of life is life.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.
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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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The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
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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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You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur
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I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
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Keep the best, forget the rest.
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I hate the word ‘cheap’. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
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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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