You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
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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When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
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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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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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Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.
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The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.
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Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.
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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’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.
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I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.
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One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.
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I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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The purpose of life is life.
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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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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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If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell’s boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.
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I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
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Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
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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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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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Don’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability
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Normal people think I’m insane.
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Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.
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You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur
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Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
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