The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.
KARL LAGERFELDI 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.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
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I hate the word ‘cheap’. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
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I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
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What I love best in life is new starts.
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You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur
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Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
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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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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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Kate Middleton has a nice silhouette and she is the right girl for that boy. I like that kind of woman, I like romantic beauties. On the other hand, her sister struggles. I don’t like the sister’s face. She should only show her back.
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Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
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During the golden age of movie stars, there were plenty of actresses who were deemed unattractive at the start of their careers, but struggled and finally appeared more beautiful and more iconic. Sometimes that idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.
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Keep the best, forget the rest.
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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’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
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