I’m not a social person. Not that I’m not at ease. I’m pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It’s not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that’s all.
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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Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans – it’s up to you.
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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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I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.
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When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don’t get carried away-it’s only dresses.
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I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny.
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When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
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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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I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
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Personality begins where comparison ends.
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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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Its all about taste.If you are cheap, nothing helps
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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What I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
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Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.
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Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women–forget about that. Forget about that. It’s a very bad way of thinking.
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The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.
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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 don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy
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I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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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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Stuff your brain with knowledge.
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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
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I’m a working-class person, working with class.
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Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.
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