Trendy is the last stage before tacky.
KARL LAGERFELDWhen 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.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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I like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.
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Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
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I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny.
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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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Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
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Normal people think I’m insane.
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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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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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I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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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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If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
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Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.
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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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I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
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