Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
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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Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
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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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Think pink, but don’t wear it.
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The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.
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I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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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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I only know how to play one role: me.
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I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
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The clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.
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Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.
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Stuff your brain with knowledge.
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Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
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I think that it’s a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.
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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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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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