Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women–forget about that. Forget about that. It’s a very bad way of thinking.
KARL LAGERFELDI’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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What I love best in life is new starts.
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The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
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I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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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 do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
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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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With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
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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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I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don’t get carried away-it’s only dresses.
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Those social networks, there’s something sad about them. Is it because they don’t have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don’t understand it. It’s like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.
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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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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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My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
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