For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.
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 don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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I like everything to be washable, myself included.
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I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.
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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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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.
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I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
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I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
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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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I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.
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Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.
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The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.
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The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
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