I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
KARL LAGERFELDI was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
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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’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
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When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
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I am physically allergic to flip-flops
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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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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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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
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Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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Normal people think I’m insane.
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I don’t want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven’t done. There’s no “again.” There’s only the future. I hate the past – especially my own past.
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Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
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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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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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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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I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
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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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Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
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The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
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Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
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I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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I don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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