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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

Karl Lagerfeld

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.
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Balck Dress Little never One Over Undress
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.
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Already Because Excite Mix Own Really Something Yet
What I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
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Chanel Coco Done Hate never
Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.
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Night Question Think Wear
You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
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Already Cloth Combination Come Creative Forst Later Reinvent
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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Bag Balck Camellia Chain Chanel Compose Country Doorman Element Jacket Only Pearl Quite Shoe Toes
The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
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Best Book Freshly Print Smell World
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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Bored Crime Learn Life Many Precious Read Say Thing Think Watch
I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.
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Anything Drink Hot never Strange Think Very
I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.
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Enough Feminist never That Ugly
Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English–but are great in remembering signs.
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Big Brand Country Great Important Logo Part People Remember Sign World
What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.
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Creativity Designer Evolve Fashion Shut Talk Time Worst
Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
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Control Defeat Life Sign Some Sweatpant
With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
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Experience Fashion Inside Outside Perfect
Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
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Clear Creativity Moment Stifle Think Wrong
Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.
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Fashion Healthiest Lose Weight
During the golden age of movie stars, there were plenty of actresses who were deemed unattractive at the start of their careers, but struggled and finally appeared more beautiful and more iconic. Sometimes that idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.
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Actresses Age Career Dem During Finally Goden Star Start Struggle Unattractive
I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.
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Cloth Cut Discipline Healthy Impeccable Like Think Well
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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Enthusiasm Few Generation Lost never Quite Survive
Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
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Dress Kill Survive
My hair is not really white; it’s kind of grayish, and I don’t like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.
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Best Color Decide Dry Grayish Hair Kind Make Really Shampoo Thing White
When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‘It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.’ This was a very healthy attitude.
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Ago Ask Child Country Homosexually Hundred Minded Mother Open Year
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
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Alone Battery Claim Creative Job People Recharge
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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English Hardly Language never School Self Taught Teacher Went
Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t.
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Chic Either Kind Mayonnaise Taste
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
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Care Lese Much Nobody Nothing Sacrifice
Don’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability
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Approval Look Mental Other Stability

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