I’ve survived quite a few generations. That’s because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.
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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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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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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I only know how to play one role: me.
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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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Think pink, but don’t wear it.
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I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
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For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.
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I like the idea of craziness with discipline.
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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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The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.
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Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.
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Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans – it’s up to you.
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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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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.
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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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