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.
KARL LAGERFELDDress 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.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
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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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Keep the best, forget the rest.
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The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.
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I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.
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One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.
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I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I’m not a tourist.
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What I love best in life is new starts.
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I like the idea of craziness with discipline.
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I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
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I only know how to play one role: me.
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I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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Think pink, but don’t wear it.
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I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
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Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
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I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.
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What I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
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Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn’t have it naked, she’ll never it clothed.
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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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With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
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Personality begins where comparison ends.
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As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything – not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.
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I like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.
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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there’s no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.
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The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
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