Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman’s jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.
KARL LAGERFELDPeople who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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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I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
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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 only know how to play one role: me.
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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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There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living…
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The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
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Reinvent 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.
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Buy 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.
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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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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
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No one wants to see curvy women.
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I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
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