For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.
KARL LAGERFELDTrendy is the last stage before tacky.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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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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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I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.
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Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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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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The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
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The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can’t be expected to be taken that seriously.
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If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
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I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
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What I love best in life is new starts.
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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.
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I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
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