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 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 never fall in love.
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Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
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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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Don’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability
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The purpose of life is life.
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It’s up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible. It’s a question of will and discipline.
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I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
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There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living…
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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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Work is making a living out of being bored.
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Normal people think I’m insane.
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I like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.
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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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EXTREME LUXURY ISN’T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT’S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.
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A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That’s what you need to make a legend survive.
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Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English–but are great in remembering signs.
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If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell’s boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.
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I’m a working-class person, working with class.
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I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
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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 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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I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
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Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
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Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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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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