I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
KARL LAGERFELDWhen 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.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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No one wants to see curvy women.
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I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
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Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women–forget about that. Forget about that. It’s a very bad way of thinking.
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Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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I hate the word ‘cheap’. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
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Don’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability
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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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What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.
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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 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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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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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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