I hate the word ‘cheap’. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
KARL LAGERFELDBlack-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell’s boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.
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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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I like the idea of craziness with discipline.
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Change is the healthiest way to survive.
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The clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.
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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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It’s up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible. It’s a question of will and discipline.
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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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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
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Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans – it’s up to you.
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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
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You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur
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I like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.
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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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Stuff your brain with knowledge.
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I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living…
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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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My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
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When 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.
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Be 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.
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My hair is not really white; it’s kind of grayish, and I don’t like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.
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The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can’t be expected to be taken that seriously.
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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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When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
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