You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
KARL LAGERFELDI’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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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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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Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English–but are great in remembering signs.
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I don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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I am physically allergic to flip-flops
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I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
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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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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 never fall in love.
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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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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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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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If you’re not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.
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I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.
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