I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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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If someone gives me a to-do list, I say ‘thank you, this is nice.’ One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.
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What I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
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When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
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Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
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Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
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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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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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Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.
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I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
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If you’re not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.
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Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
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Change is the healthiest way to survive.
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To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don’t skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.
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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
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If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell’s boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.
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