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.
KARL LAGERFELDChic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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What I love best in life is new starts.
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You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
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Personality begins where comparison ends.
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The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.
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The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
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I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I’m not a tourist.
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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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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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Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn’t have it naked, she’ll never it clothed.
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Change is the healthiest way to survive.
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When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don’t get carried away-it’s only dresses.
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Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
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I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
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When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, ‘It’s not the days that are old, it’s you that’s old.’ I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.
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