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 LAGERFELDI 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.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I 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.
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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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The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.
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I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
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I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.
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I hate birthdays, .. It’s more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it’s an evolution. I don’t celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.
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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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If you’re not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.
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I’m a working-class person, working with class.
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Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
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Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty
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I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.
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Trendy is the last stage before tacky.
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Normal people think I’m insane.
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