My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
KARL LAGERFELDI don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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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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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I am physically allergic to flip-flops
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The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can’t be expected to be taken that seriously.
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What I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
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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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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
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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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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
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I’ve survived quite a few generations. That’s because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.
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Change is the healthiest way to survive.
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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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My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
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I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
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