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I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

Karl Lagerfeld

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.
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I don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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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 brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.
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I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
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I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.
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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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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 hate the word ‘cheap’. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
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Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.
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When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don’t get carried away-it’s only dresses.
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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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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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I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny.
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I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

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