I don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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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If you’re not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.
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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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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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Think pink, but don’t wear it.
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When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, ‘It’s not the days that are old, it’s you that’s old.’ I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.
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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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Trendy is the last stage before tacky.
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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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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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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.
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I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
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The clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.
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People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
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What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.
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Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
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