Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people… the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life… they are mean and they want to kill you.
KARL LAGERFELD

Beauty Contest Hate Life Men Nasty Person Short Some Ugly Wordt
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
I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
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Beauty Like Standard Strangers Without
I only know how to play one role: me.
KARL LAGERFELD

Know One Only Play Role
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.
KARL LAGERFELD

Beautiful Fourteen Grown Hand Like Mad Mother Show Smoke Up Want When
Be politically correct, but please don’t bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that’s the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.
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Bother Conversation Correct End Everything Other People Please Politically
I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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Dress Full Horrible Living Pucci Tattoo Think Time
When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
KARL LAGERFELD

Child Children Hate never Other Play
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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Carried Challenge Complan Designer Dress Only Profession Say
Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
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Clear Creativity Moment Stifle Think Wrong
The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
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Best Book Freshly Print Smell World
My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
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Ambition Eight Jeans Life Only Size Twenty Wear
Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
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Income Luxury Pleasant Tax Vanity
The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
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Garbage House Important Most Peace
I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
KARL LAGERFELD

Black Cut Diamond Hard Rare Uncommercial Unfaced
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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Equal Expect Flat Geisha High Make Men Play Serious Shoe Taken Woman
A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
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Appearance Interest Make More People Respectable Soul Sufficient
Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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Bear Long Nice Them Very
Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty
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Everything Eye Look Make Pretty Shadow Sunglasses Younger
I don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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Anyway Know Mean Normal What
With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
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Experience Fashion Inside Outside Perfect
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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Child Conversation Everything Growm Hate Intelectual Intellectual Like Talk Up Want
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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Bad Everybody Forbid Health Horrible Know People Smoke Think Told
Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it’s more of an evocation of what you do. It’s more an evocation of seduction.
KARL LAGERFELD

Always Art Celebration Deduction First Foremost Form Treat Wild
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
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
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Express Fashion Music Period Same
Stuff your brain with knowledge.
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Brain Knowledge Stuff

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