The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can’t be expected to be taken that seriously.
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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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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I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
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During the golden age of movie stars, there were plenty of actresses who were deemed unattractive at the start of their careers, but struggled and finally appeared more beautiful and more iconic. Sometimes that idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.
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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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When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
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Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.
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I don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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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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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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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
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Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t.
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My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
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I hate the word ‘cheap’. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
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Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
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