The clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.
KARL LAGERFELDI design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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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If you’re not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.
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Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
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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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The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
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Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
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There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living…
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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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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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Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.
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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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What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.
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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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The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.
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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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A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That’s what you need to make a legend survive.
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The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.
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Personality begins where comparison ends.
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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.
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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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Its all about taste.If you are cheap, nothing helps
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The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
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Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
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Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
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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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