The clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.
KARL LAGERFELDI like everything to be washable, myself included.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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Stuff your brain with knowledge.
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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 do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
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I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
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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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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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If someone gives me a to-do list, I say ‘thank you, this is nice.’ One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.
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I am physically allergic to flip-flops
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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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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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Personality begins where comparison ends.
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One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.
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I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
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With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
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The purpose of life is life.
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I like the idea of craziness with discipline.
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I’m a working-class person, working with class.
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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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Keep the best, forget the rest.
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I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
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If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
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The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
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If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell’s boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.
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