What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
KARL LAGERFELDLuxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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.
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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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I am physically allergic to flip-flops
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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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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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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
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Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn’t have it naked, she’ll never it clothed.
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Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
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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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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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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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You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
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I don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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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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Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t.
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