Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
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 am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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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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Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.
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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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I’m a working-class person, working with class.
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If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.
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I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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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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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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I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
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Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
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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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Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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