Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
KARL LAGERFELDI’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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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The purpose of life is life.
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Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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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 the idea of craziness with discipline.
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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’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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Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
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I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I’m not a tourist.
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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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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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