With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
KARL LAGERFELDI 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.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
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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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I 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.
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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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Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman’s jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.
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I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.
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Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
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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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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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I don’t like sleeping with people I really love. I don’t want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.
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Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it’s more of an evocation of what you do. It’s more an evocation of seduction.
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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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The clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.
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I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
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Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.
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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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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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I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.
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Don’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability
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Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.
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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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Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.
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Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.
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