As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything – not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.
KARL LAGERFELDFashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
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I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.
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Personality begins where comparison ends.
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I only know how to play one role: me.
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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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I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
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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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I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
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I hate birthdays, .. It’s more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it’s an evolution. I don’t celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.
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Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.
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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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The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.
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Sometimes it’s easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don’t have the idea.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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What I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
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