Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
KARL LAGERFELDThe clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.
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I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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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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I like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.
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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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Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it’s more of an evocation of what you do. It’s more an evocation of seduction.
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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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Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
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When I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: ‘You shouldn’t smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke.
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When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don’t get carried away-it’s only dresses.
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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.
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I never fall in love.
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The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.
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The reason American cars don’t sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That’s why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.
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I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
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