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.
KARL LAGERFELDLife should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.
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I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
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I’m a working-class person, working with class.
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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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I like the idea of craziness with discipline.
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Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
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I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.
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Kate Middleton has a nice silhouette and she is the right girl for that boy. I like that kind of woman, I like romantic beauties. On the other hand, her sister struggles. I don’t like the sister’s face. She should only show her back.
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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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If you’re not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.
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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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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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I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
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