The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.
KARL LAGERFELDWhen 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.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
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I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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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 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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You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
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Be politically correct, but please don’t bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that’s the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.
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I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
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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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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
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I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
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I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
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The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.
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No one wants to see curvy women.
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Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t.
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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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