The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
KARL LAGERFELDYou cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I don’t want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven’t done. There’s no “again.” There’s only the future. I hate the past – especially my own past.
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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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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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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 get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
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The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
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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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I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
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I only know how to play one role: me.
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I like everything to be washable, myself included.
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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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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When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
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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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