Work is making a living out of being bored.
KARL LAGERFELDWork is making a living out of being bored.
KARL LAGERFELDSunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty
KARL LAGERFELDDon’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
KARL LAGERFELDReinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.
KARL LAGERFELDI like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.
KARL LAGERFELDThe smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
KARL LAGERFELDMy job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
KARL LAGERFELDThe secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
KARL LAGERFELDI don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
KARL LAGERFELDThe 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.
KARL LAGERFELDThe middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
KARL LAGERFELDIf someone gives me a to-do list, I say ‘thank you, this is nice.’ One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.
KARL LAGERFELDThere’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living…
KARL LAGERFELDI’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.
KARL LAGERFELDChange is the healthiest way to survive.
KARL LAGERFELDI never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.
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