You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
KARL LAGERFELDYou come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
KARL LAGERFELDSunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty
KARL LAGERFELDI’m a working-class person, working with class.
KARL LAGERFELDFashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
KARL LAGERFELDI’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
KARL LAGERFELDWhat I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
KARL LAGERFELDI would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
KARL LAGERFELDThe 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 LAGERFELDI get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
KARL LAGERFELDThe clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.
KARL LAGERFELDI 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.
KARL LAGERFELDBears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
KARL LAGERFELDI 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.
KARL LAGERFELDSometimes it’s easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don’t have the idea.
KARL LAGERFELDI 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.
KARL LAGERFELDI don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.
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