When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‘It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.’ This was a very healthy attitude.
KARL LAGERFELDChic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
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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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Don’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability
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Change is the healthiest way to survive.
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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 think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
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I 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.
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I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
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I don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
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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 am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don’t skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.
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I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
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