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.
KARL LAGERFELDI like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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.
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Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
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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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For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.
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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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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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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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I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
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I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.
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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 a working-class person, working with class.
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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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Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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