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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.

Karl Lagerfeld

Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English–but are great in remembering signs.
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Big Brand Country Great Important Logo Part People Remember Sign World
Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans – it’s up to you.
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Cheap Cloth Everyone Inexpensive Look never Rich Today Use Word
Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
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Control Defeat Life Sign Some Sweatpant
These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.
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Bag Crisp Fat Front Model Mummies Say Sit Televiosn Ugly
Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
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Income Luxury Pleasant Tax Vanity
The purpose of life is life.
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Life Purpose
A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
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Appearance Interest Make More People Respectable Soul Sufficient
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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English Hardly Language never School Self Taught Teacher Went
My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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Bring Dare Job Out People Themselves
Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.
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Escape Important Larger Life Normalization Size
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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Country Meet People Person Same Want Work
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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Even Future Mean More Past Present Problem Respect
I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
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Breathe Do Job Trouble
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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Anymore Buy Car Country Design Dream Forgotten Matter Reason Sell Today
Keep the best, forget the rest.
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Best Forget Keep Rest
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
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Express Fashion Music Period Same

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