As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything – not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.
KARL LAGERFELDDon’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
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When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, ‘It’s not the days that are old, it’s you that’s old.’ I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.
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You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
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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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Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
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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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Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
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I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
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I never fall in love.
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If someone gives me a to-do list, I say ‘thank you, this is nice.’ One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.
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Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
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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.
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I’m never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that’s the secret to doing things well.
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Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
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Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.
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People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
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