I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
KARL LAGERFELDSunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
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When I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: ‘You shouldn’t smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke.
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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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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
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I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
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Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t.
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The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
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My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
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I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.
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One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.
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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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The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.
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When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, ‘It’s not the days that are old, it’s you that’s old.’ I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.
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I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.
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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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I don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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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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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 hate birthdays, .. It’s more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it’s an evolution. I don’t celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.
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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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Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
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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 am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
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Personality begins where comparison ends.
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Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
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I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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