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.
KARL LAGERFELDChanel 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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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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Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
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I like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.
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I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
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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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My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
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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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I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
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Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
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I only know how to play one role: me.
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I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there’s no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.
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Personality begins where comparison ends.
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Work is making a living out of being bored.
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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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I’m not a social person. Not that I’m not at ease. I’m pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It’s not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that’s all.
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