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.
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 like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.
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Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
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I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.
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Don’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability
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I’ve survived quite a few generations. That’s because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.
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I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.
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I only know how to play one role: me.
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What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.
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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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Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.
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Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
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Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn’t have it naked, she’ll never it clothed.
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The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.
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The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can’t be expected to be taken that seriously.
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My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
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