The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
KARL LAGERFELDMy only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.
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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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What I love best in life is new starts.
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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 love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
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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 hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.
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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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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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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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What I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
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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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Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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