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What I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.

Karl Lagerfeld

The clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.
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Clothes Suit You
The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.
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Best Dive Do Drown Imagination Thing Yourself
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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Beautiful Fourteen Grown Hand Like Mad Mother Show Smoke Up Want When
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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Creativity Designer Evolve Fashion Shut Talk Time Worst
I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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Black Cut Diamond Hard Rare Uncommercial Unfaced
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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Already Because Excite Mix Own Really Something Yet
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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Country Lesbian Men Ugly Very Women
I only know how to play one role: me.
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Know One Only Play Role
The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.
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Body Brain Builder Kind Muscle
If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
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Bad Goggedly Something Start Stick
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
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Alone Battery Claim Creative Job People Recharge
The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can’t be expected to be taken that seriously.
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Equal Expect Flat Geisha High Make Men Play Serious Shoe Taken Woman
Personality begins where comparison ends.
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Begin Comparision End Personality
It’s great that in life you do something that you want to do because you like doing it and you’re not bored. I’m not bored at all. I’m even interested in lots of things, more so today than before.
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Bore Do Great Life Like Something Thing Want
The reason American cars don’t sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That’s why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.
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Anymore Buy Car Country Design Dream Forgotten Matter Reason Sell Today
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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Bag Balck Camellia Chain Chanel Compose Country Doorman Element Jacket Only Pearl Quite Shoe Toes
I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
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Criticize Everything Live Open Over Start Times
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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Give List Need Nice Say Someone Thank Thing Wastebasket
A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
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Appearance Interest Make More People Respectable Soul Sufficient
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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Actresses Age Career Dem During Finally Goden Star Start Struggle Unattractive
If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.
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Even Future Mean More Past Present Problem Respect
The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
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Being Face Identity Modelling Ned One People Perfect Second Secret
Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
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Born Live Youthfulness
Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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Heartiest Life Thing Vanity
Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.
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Attempt Look Make Nothing Older Young
Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
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Dress Kill Survive
I don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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Anyway Know Mean Normal What

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