Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
KARL LAGERFELDYou come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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 don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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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.
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Don’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability
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The clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.
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I like everything to be washable, myself included.
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I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
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I don’t like sleeping with people I really love. I don’t want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.
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The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
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The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.
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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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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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Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
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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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