Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.
KARL LAGERFELDNothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.
KARL LAGERFELDI only know how to play one role: me.
KARL LAGERFELDI think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
KARL LAGERFELDNo one wants to see curvy women.
KARL LAGERFELDPeople who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
KARL LAGERFELDForgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
KARL LAGERFELDYou cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur
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.
KARL LAGERFELDBe politically correct, but please don’t bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that’s the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.
KARL LAGERFELDLife should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.
KARL LAGERFELDWhat I love best in life is new starts.
KARL LAGERFELDLife is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people… the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life… they are mean and they want to kill you.
KARL LAGERFELDI don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
KARL LAGERFELDTrendy is the last stage before tacky.
KARL LAGERFELDI like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.
KARL LAGERFELDI think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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