When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‘It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.’ This was a very healthy attitude.
KARL LAGERFELDI’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
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I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
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The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
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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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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
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What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.
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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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Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
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What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
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The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.
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I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
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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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I don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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Be politically correct, but please don’t bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that’s the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.
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I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there’s no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.
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Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.
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Sometimes it’s easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don’t have the idea.
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Those social networks, there’s something sad about them. Is it because they don’t have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don’t understand it. It’s like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.
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I like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.
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I don’t want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven’t done. There’s no “again.” There’s only the future. I hate the past – especially my own past.
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I like everything to be washable, myself included.
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I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
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There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living…
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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
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