When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don’t get carried away-it’s only dresses.
KARL LAGERFELDIf 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.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
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I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there’s no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.
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You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
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Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women–forget about that. Forget about that. It’s a very bad way of thinking.
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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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A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That’s what you need to make a legend survive.
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I am physically allergic to flip-flops
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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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I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.
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I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
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You 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.
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Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
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People 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.
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