A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That’s what you need to make a legend survive.
KARL LAGERFELDGuilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn’t have it naked, she’ll never it clothed.
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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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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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My hair is not really white; it’s kind of grayish, and I don’t like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.
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These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.
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I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
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Be politically correct, but please don’t bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that’s the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.
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Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
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Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English–but are great in remembering signs.
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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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The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.
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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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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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Normal people think I’m insane.
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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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