What I love best in life is new starts.
KARL LAGERFELDI’m not a social person. Not that I’m not at ease. I’m pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It’s not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that’s all.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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During the golden age of movie stars, there were plenty of actresses who were deemed unattractive at the start of their careers, but struggled and finally appeared more beautiful and more iconic. Sometimes that idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.
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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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What I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
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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.
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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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Work is making a living out of being bored.
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A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That’s what you need to make a legend survive.
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The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.
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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 only go to places if I have a professional reason. I’m not a tourist.
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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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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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I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.
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I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.
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For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.
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