I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
KARL LAGERFELDI’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
KARL LAGERFELDSuccess nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.
KARL LAGERFELDVanity is the healthiest thing in life.
KARL LAGERFELDI hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.
KARL LAGERFELDI 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.
KARL LAGERFELDEXTREME LUXURY ISN’T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT’S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.
KARL LAGERFELDWhen 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.
KARL LAGERFELDI design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
KARL LAGERFELDI never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.
KARL LAGERFELDSometimes it’s easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don’t have the idea.
KARL LAGERFELDThe brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.
KARL LAGERFELDI am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
KARL LAGERFELDFashion designers are dictators of taste.
KARL LAGERFELDI never fall in love.
KARL LAGERFELDLife is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people… the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life… they are mean and they want to kill you.
KARL LAGERFELDNothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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