When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‘It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.’ This was a very healthy attitude.
KARL LAGERFELDThere’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living…
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
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Think pink, but don’t wear it.
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Change is the healthiest way to survive.
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I like everything to be washable, myself included.
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You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur
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Those social networks, there’s something sad about them. Is it because they don’t have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don’t understand it. It’s like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.
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There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living…
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The reason American cars don’t sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That’s why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.
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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.
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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 design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
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Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
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Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.
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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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