I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
KARL LAGERFELDI hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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I like everything to be washable, myself included.
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I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
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The reason American cars don’t sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That’s why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.
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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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Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.
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I am physically allergic to flip-flops
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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.
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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