Personality begins where comparison ends.
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.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.
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I don’t want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven’t done. There’s no “again.” There’s only the future. I hate the past – especially my own past.
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I’m never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that’s the secret to doing things well.
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Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
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You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
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Stuff your brain with knowledge.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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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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If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
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I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
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Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.
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I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.
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I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
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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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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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