I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
KARL LAGERFELDI’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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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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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Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.
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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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I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people… the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life… they are mean and they want to kill you.
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I hate birthdays, .. It’s more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it’s an evolution. I don’t celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.
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I think that it’s a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.
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I like the idea of craziness with discipline.
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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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Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.
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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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Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t.
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You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
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