Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
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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The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
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A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
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When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
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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’ve survived quite a few generations. That’s because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.
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I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
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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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Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
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I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
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Don’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability
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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
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When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
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My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
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I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
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