Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn’t have it naked, she’ll never it clothed.
KARL LAGERFELDAs a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything – not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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What I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
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Trendy is the last stage before tacky.
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Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
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I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
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Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
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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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Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t.
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A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That’s what you need to make a legend survive.
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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living…
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As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything – not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.
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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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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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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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Normal people think I’m insane.
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