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.
KARL LAGERFELDI get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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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When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
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I like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.
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The clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.
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Trendy is the last stage before tacky.
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Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
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I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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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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There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living…
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Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
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The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.
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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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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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The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
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