Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
KARL LAGERFELDI 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.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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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Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it’s more of an evocation of what you do. It’s more an evocation of seduction.
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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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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English–but are great in remembering signs.
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If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
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Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
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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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Work is making a living out of being bored.
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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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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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Normal people think I’m insane.
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What I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
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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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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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When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
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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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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’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
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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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I hate the word ‘cheap’. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
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I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
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Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
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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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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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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.
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