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.
KARL LAGERFELDI am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
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Don’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability
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The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
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You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur
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The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can’t be expected to be taken that seriously.
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There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living…
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Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.
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It’s up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible. It’s a question of will and discipline.
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Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.
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Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman’s jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.
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I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
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The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.
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