Work is making a living out of being bored.
KARL LAGERFELDWhen 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.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.
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A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That’s what you need to make a legend survive.
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I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
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It’s up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible. It’s a question of will and discipline.
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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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You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
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I never fall in love.
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Think pink, but don’t wear it.
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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
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