Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman’s jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.
KARL LAGERFELDI’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans – it’s up to you.
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Keep the best, forget the rest.
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I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
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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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The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can’t be expected to be taken that seriously.
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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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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
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No one wants to see curvy women.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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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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I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
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I only know how to play one role: me.
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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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