I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
KARL LAGERFELDFashion designers are dictators of taste.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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.
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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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Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn’t have it naked, she’ll never it clothed.
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I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
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I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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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 thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.
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Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.
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The clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.
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I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
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I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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EXTREME LUXURY ISN’T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT’S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.
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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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I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
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I’ve survived quite a few generations. That’s because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.
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