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.
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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The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.
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I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
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Stuff your brain with knowledge.
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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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I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
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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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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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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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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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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.
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The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
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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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Personality begins where comparison ends.
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I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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The purpose of life is life.
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Be politically correct, but please don’t bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that’s the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.
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I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
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I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.
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I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
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Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English–but are great in remembering signs.
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Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
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Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
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I like the idea of craziness with discipline.
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The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.
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