I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
KARL LAGERFELDThe French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.
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Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
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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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I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
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I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
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The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
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Keep the best, forget the rest.
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Personality begins where comparison ends.
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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 like sleeping with people I really love. I don’t want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.
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I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
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Don’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability
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Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
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What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.
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I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
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