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.
KARL LAGERFELDThe clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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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Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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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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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
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I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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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 do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
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Its all about taste.If you are cheap, nothing helps
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I think that it’s a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.
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I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
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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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Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
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Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
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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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You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
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I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
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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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Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.
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What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
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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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Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people… the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life… they are mean and they want to kill you.
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