You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur
KARL LAGERFELDSweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
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Trendy is the last stage before tacky.
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I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.
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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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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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I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
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I never fall in love.
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I’m never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that’s the secret to doing things well.
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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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The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
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Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
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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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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
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Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
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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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