I don’t like sleeping with people I really love. I don’t want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.
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.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
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The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
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I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy
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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything – not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.
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Kate Middleton has a nice silhouette and she is the right girl for that boy. I like that kind of woman, I like romantic beauties. On the other hand, her sister struggles. I don’t like the sister’s face. She should only show her back.
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Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
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I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
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If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
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When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
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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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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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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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The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.
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