When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‘It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.’ This was a very healthy attitude.
KARL LAGERFELDI do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don’t skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.
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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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I like everything to be washable, myself included.
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I think that it’s a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.
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I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
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I never fall in love.
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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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With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
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What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
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I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
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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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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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I don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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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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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
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I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
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Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.
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I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy
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Kate Middleton has a nice silhouette and she is the right girl for that boy. I like that kind of woman, I like romantic beauties. On the other hand, her sister struggles. I don’t like the sister’s face. She should only show her back.
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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I 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.
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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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Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
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If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
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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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No one wants to see curvy women.
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