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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.

Karl Lagerfeld

EXTREME LUXURY ISN’T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT’S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.
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Bling Couture Extreme Finest Luxury Most Refinement
I’m never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that’s the secret to doing things well.
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Content Dissatisfaction Doing Live never Permanent Secret Sort Thing Well
When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‘It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.’ This was a very healthy attitude.
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Ago Ask Child Country Homosexually Hundred Minded Mother Open Year
I hate the word ‘cheap’. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
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Cheap Clothing Either Expensive Experience Hate Inexpensive People World
Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
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Control Defeat Life Sign Some Sweatpant
Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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Clothes Create Fashion Interpret Itself Language Reality
Trendy is the last stage before tacky.
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Before Last Stage Tacky Trendy
I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.
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Apart Bed Before Fall Hour House Midnight Nine Seven Sleep Wake
Change is the healthiest way to survive.
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Change Heartiest Survive Way
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
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Book Bound Danger Drug Happy Hard Overdose Victim
Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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Collection Dot More Nothing People Scare Some
When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, ‘It’s not the days that are old, it’s you that’s old.’ I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.
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Day Good Hate Old People Talk
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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Beautiful Fourteen Grown Hand Like Mad Mother Show Smoke Up Want When
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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Easy Find Idea Often Responsible Sometimes Way
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.
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Care Lese Much Nobody Nothing Sacrifice
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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Alone Battery Claim Creative Job People Recharge
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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Always Art Celebration Deduction First Foremost Form Treat Wild
I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
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Age Along Bore Bourgeous Everyone Except Get Men Retire
As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything – not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.
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Child Conversation Everything Growm Hate Intelectual Intellectual Like Talk Up Want
If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell’s boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.
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Country Lesbian Men Ugly Very Women
I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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Admire Care Criticize Me Opinion People Valuable
If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.
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Even Future Mean More Past Present Problem Respect
I’m a working-class person, working with class.
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Class Person Work
I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.
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Anything Drink Hot never Strange Think Very
People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
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Better Devaluing Existence Own People Say Today Ultimate Yesterday
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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Big Brand Country Great Important Logo Part People Remember Sign World
I only know how to play one role: me.
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Know One Only Play Role

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