When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, ‘It’s not the days that are old, it’s you that’s old.’ I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.
KARL LAGERFELDPeople who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
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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 open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
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The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
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Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
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I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.
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I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
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My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
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I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
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The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.
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I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.
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Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
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I think that it’s a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.
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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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