I hate the word ‘cheap’. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
KARL LAGERFELDClear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
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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The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.
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I’m not a social person. Not that I’m not at ease. I’m pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It’s not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that’s all.
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I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
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I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I’m not a tourist.
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There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living…
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I’m a working-class person, working with class.
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I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.
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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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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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I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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Trendy is the last stage before tacky.
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The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
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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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