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.
KARL LAGERFELDDress 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.
KARL LAGERFELDThe French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.
KARL LAGERFELDBlack-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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.
KARL LAGERFELDWhat I hate is nasty, ugly people.
KARL LAGERFELDI 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.
KARL LAGERFELDDon’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right 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 LAGERFELDFashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
KARL LAGERFELDWhat I love best in life is new starts.
KARL LAGERFELDOne is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.
KARL LAGERFELDLife is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people… the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life… they are mean and they want to kill you.
KARL LAGERFELDI don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
KARL LAGERFELDThe clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.
KARL LAGERFELDWhen I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
KARL LAGERFELDElegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn’t have it naked, she’ll never it clothed.
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