Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
KARL LAGERFELDForgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
KARL LAGERFELDFashion designers are dictators of taste.
KARL LAGERFELDI’m a working-class person, working with class.
KARL LAGERFELDI like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny.
KARL LAGERFELDBooks are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
KARL LAGERFELDThe clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.
KARL LAGERFELDWhen I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: ‘You shouldn’t smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke.
KARL LAGERFELDI like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.
KARL LAGERFELDReinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.
KARL LAGERFELDYou 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.
KARL LAGERFELDThe thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.
KARL LAGERFELDThere’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living…
KARL LAGERFELDBuy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
KARL LAGERFELDWith expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
KARL LAGERFELDI am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
KARL LAGERFELDSuccess nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.
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