If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.
KARL LAGERFELDTo reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don’t skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
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Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people… the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life… they are mean and they want to kill you.
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Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.
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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 cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur
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I am physically allergic to flip-flops
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The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.
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When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
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I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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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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My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
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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 am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
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I’m not a social person. Not that I’m not at ease. I’m pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It’s not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that’s all.
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I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
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