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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

It’s up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible. It’s a question of will and discipline.
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Discipline Everyday Make Perfect Possible Question Up
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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Day Good Hate Old People Talk
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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Even Future Mean More Past Present Problem Respect
My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
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Bring Dare Job Out People Themselves
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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Childish Cloth Discussion Eat Fur Hangbag Leather Meat Shoe Wear World
I only know how to play one role: me.
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Know One Only Play Role
I hate the word ‘cheap’. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
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Cheap Clothing Either Expensive Experience Hate Inexpensive People World
If you’re not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.
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Another Dialogue Fashion Job Non Ready Stop
Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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Heartiest Life Thing Vanity
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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Ago Ask Child Country Homosexually Hundred Minded Mother Open Year
I’m a working-class person, working with class.
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Class Person Work
What I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
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Chanel Coco Done Hate never
Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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Bear Long Nice Them Very
Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
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Born Live Youthfulness
Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
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Control Defeat Life Sign Some Sweatpant
Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
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Income Luxury Pleasant Tax Vanity
I don’t like sleeping with people I really love. I don’t want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.
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Affection Forever Last Like Love People Sex Sleep Want
If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell’s boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.
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Country Lesbian Men Ugly Very Women
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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Anymore Buy Car Country Design Dream Forgotten Matter Reason Sell Today
Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t.
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Chic Either Kind Mayonnaise Taste
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.
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Bag Balck Camellia Chain Chanel Compose Country Doorman Element Jacket Only Pearl Quite Shoe Toes
The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.
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Country Eat Engine Hungry Inspire Say Work
I hate birthdays, .. It’s more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it’s an evolution. I don’t celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.
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Birthday Celebrate Country Evolution Hate Like More New Past Point Present Start Tomorrow
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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Big Brand Country Great Important Logo Part People Remember Sign World
Sometimes 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.
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Easy Find Idea Often Responsible Sometimes Way
I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
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Age Along Bore Bourgeous Everyone Except Get Men Retire
I am physically allergic to flip-flops
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Allergic Flip Flop Physically

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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