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.
KARL LAGERFELDWhen I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.
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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 think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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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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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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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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The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
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Stuff your brain with knowledge.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
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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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Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
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When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don’t get carried away-it’s only dresses.
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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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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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