It’s up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible. It’s a question of will and discipline.
KARL LAGERFELDMy only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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Those social networks, there’s something sad about them. Is it because they don’t have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don’t understand it. It’s like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.
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I don’t want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven’t done. There’s no “again.” There’s only the future. I hate the past – especially my own past.
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If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
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You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur
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I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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I hate the word ‘cheap’. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don’t skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.
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I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
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If you’re not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.
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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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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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I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
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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 get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
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EXTREME LUXURY ISN’T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT’S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.
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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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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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The clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.
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Trendy is the last stage before tacky.
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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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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
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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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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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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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