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.
KARL LAGERFELDI sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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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I’m never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that’s the secret to doing things well.
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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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When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don’t get carried away-it’s only dresses.
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Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.
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The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
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Change is the healthiest way to survive.
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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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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 am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.
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Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
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Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.
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There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living…
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