I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
KARL LAGERFELDSometimes it’s easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don’t have the idea.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.
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I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I’m not a tourist.
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I’m a working-class person, working with class.
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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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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 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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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 discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.
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There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living…
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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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It’s great that in life you do something that you want to do because you like doing it and you’re not bored. I’m not bored at all. I’m even interested in lots of things, more so today than before.
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Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn’t have it naked, she’ll never it clothed.
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Sometimes it’s easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don’t have the idea.
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What I love best in life is new starts.
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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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