I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
KARL LAGERFELD
I’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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I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
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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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A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
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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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Think pink, but don’t wear it.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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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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When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
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I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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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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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 do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
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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 flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can’t be expected to be taken that seriously.
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Personality begins where comparison ends.
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