As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything – not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.
KARL LAGERFELDNever 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.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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Don’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability
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I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
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Personality begins where comparison ends.
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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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Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn’t have it naked, she’ll never it clothed.
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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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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.
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Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
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I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
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Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
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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 hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there’s no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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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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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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