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.
KARL LAGERFELDIf someone gives me a to-do list, I say ‘thank you, this is nice.’ One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I never fall in love.
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I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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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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I don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
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A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
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I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy
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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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Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it’s more of an evocation of what you do. It’s more an evocation of seduction.
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A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That’s what you need to make a legend survive.
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Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
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Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people… the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life… they are mean and they want to kill you.
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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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Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.
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