The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
KARL LAGERFELDWhen I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‘It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.’ This was a very healthy attitude.
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Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
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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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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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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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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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Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.
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Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.
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These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.
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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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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 thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.
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I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
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