If someone gives me a to-do list, I say ‘thank you, this is nice.’ One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.
KARL LAGERFELDI think that it’s a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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Trendy is the last stage before tacky.
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I’ve survived quite a few generations. That’s because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.
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Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.
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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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EXTREME LUXURY ISN’T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT’S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.
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It’s great that in life you do something that you want to do because you like doing it and you’re not bored. I’m not bored at all. I’m even interested in lots of things, more so today than before.
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Those social networks, there’s something sad about them. Is it because they don’t have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don’t understand it. It’s like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.
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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
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I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
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To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don’t skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.
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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.
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I hate the word ‘cheap’. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
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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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