What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
KARL LAGERFELDThe purpose of life is life.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.
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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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Normal people think I’m insane.
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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 am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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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 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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Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
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I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
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One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.
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I’m not a social person. Not that I’m not at ease. I’m pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It’s not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that’s all.
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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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I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
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Those social networks, there’s something sad about them. Is it because they don’t have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don’t understand it. It’s like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.
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