Chanel 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.
KARL LAGERFELDI am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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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Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.
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I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
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If someone gives me a to-do list, I say ‘thank you, this is nice.’ One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.
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I think that it’s a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.
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I’m never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that’s the secret to doing things well.
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I like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.
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It’s great that in life you do something that you want to do because you like doing it and you’re not bored. I’m not bored at all. I’m even interested in lots of things, more so today than before.
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I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy
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Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans – it’s up to you.
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Stuff your brain with knowledge.
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A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
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I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English–but are great in remembering signs.
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