When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
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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Stuff your brain with knowledge.
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I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
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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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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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I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
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Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
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The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.
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I like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.
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I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
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To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don’t skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.
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I hate birthdays, .. It’s more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it’s an evolution. I don’t celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.
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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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Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.
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The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
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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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I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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I like the idea of craziness with discipline.
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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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What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
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Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
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Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.
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Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
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I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
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Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.
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