I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
KARL LAGERFELDThose social networks, there’s something sad about them. Is it because they don’t have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don’t understand it. It’s like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.
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Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
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The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
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I don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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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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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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Stuff your brain with knowledge.
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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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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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It’s great that in life you do something that you want to do because you like doing it and you’re not bored. I’m not bored at all. I’m even interested in lots of things, more so today than before.
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I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny.
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If someone gives me a to-do list, I say ‘thank you, this is nice.’ One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.
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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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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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Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t.
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Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
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I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.
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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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Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.
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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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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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I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy
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If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
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I only know how to play one role: me.
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