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.
KARL LAGERFELDDon’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
-
-
I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.
KARL LAGERFELD -
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.
KARL LAGERFELD -
The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
KARL LAGERFELD -
I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.
KARL LAGERFELD -
Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
KARL LAGERFELD -
When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
KARL LAGERFELD -
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.
KARL LAGERFELD -
Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.
KARL LAGERFELD -
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
KARL LAGERFELD -
I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
KARL LAGERFELD -
Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn’t have it naked, she’ll never it clothed.
KARL LAGERFELD -
I like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.
KARL LAGERFELD -
Think pink, but don’t wear it.
KARL LAGERFELD -
Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
KARL LAGERFELD -
Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people… the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life… they are mean and they want to kill you.
KARL LAGERFELD