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The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.

Karl Lagerfeld

There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living…
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Bore Living Office People Something
Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
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Excite Just Shopping Simple Something
I like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.
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Job Like Part Reinvent
A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That’s what you need to make a legend survive.
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Humour Lack Legend Little Make Need Respect Sense Survive
Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women–forget about that. Forget about that. It’s a very bad way of thinking.
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Dress Forget Impress Love Man One Other Women
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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Country Meet People Person Same Want Work
The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.
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Body Brain Builder Kind Muscle
Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t.
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Chic Either Kind Mayonnaise Taste
I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there’s no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.
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Amateurs Hate People Unprofessional
My hair is not really white; it’s kind of grayish, and I don’t like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.
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Best Color Decide Dry Grayish Hair Kind Make Really Shampoo Thing White
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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Equal Expect Flat Geisha High Make Men Play Serious Shoe Taken Woman
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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Content Dissatisfaction Doing Live never Permanent Secret Sort Thing Well
Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
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Designer Dictator Fashion Taste
Normal people think I’m insane.
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Insane Normal People Think
I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
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Ask Breathe Design Happen Just Like
I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.
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Apart Bed Before Fall Hour House Midnight Nine Seven Sleep Wake
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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Day Good Hate Old People Talk
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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Beauty Contest Hate Life Men Nasty Person Short Some Ugly Wordt
Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
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Born Live Youthfulness
For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.
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Buy Every Body Read Time
I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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Dress Full Horrible Living Pucci Tattoo Think Time
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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Big Brand Country Great Important Logo Part People Remember Sign World
I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.
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Anything Drink Hot never Strange Think Very
I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I’m not a tourist.
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Go Only Place Professional Reason Tourist
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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Clothes Feeling Guilty Totally Unnecessary
One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.
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Balck Dress Little never One Over Undress
I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
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Beauty Like Standard Strangers Without

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