Karl Lagerfeld quotes
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“Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.”
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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 very much down to earth, just not this earth.”
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“The best way to know people is to work with them.”
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“Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.”
-- Karl LagerfeldSource : Twitter post from Oct 15, 2012
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“Change is the healthiest way to survive.”
-- Karl LagerfeldSource : Twitter post from Jan 29, 2013
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“Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.”
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“I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.”
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“Work is making a living out of being bored.”
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“Fashion designers are dictators of taste.”
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“You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.”
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“A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul”
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“I'm a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant.”
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“Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't.”
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“Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.”
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“I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.”
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“Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.”
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“I 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.”
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“Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.”
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“I buy my shoes a size too small. I like the way it feels.”
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“I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.”
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“I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.”
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“I like the idea of craziness with discipline.”
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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 best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.”
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“I like everything to be washable, myself included.”
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“Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty”
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“For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them”
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“Never use the word “cheapâ€. 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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“The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.”
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“The advantage of Fashion is that there is no racism”
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“Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.”
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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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“I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.”
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“I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.”
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“Today couture has to be expensive, but it shouldn’t look expensive.”
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“I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy”
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“Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.”
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“I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.”
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“Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well.”
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“Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.”
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“I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens”
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“There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes.”
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“Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.”
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“Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.”
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“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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“I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.”
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“I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.”
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“I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.”
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“Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'”
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“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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“If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.”
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“Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.”
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“There is no marriage, yet, for human beings and animals. I never thought that I would fall in love like this with a cat.”
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“The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.”
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“In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.”
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“I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.”
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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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“Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.”
-- Karl LagerfeldSource : "Karl Lagerfeld Gives His Best Quote About Plastic Surgery Yet" By Jamie Feldman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2014.
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“I'm a working-class person, working with class.”
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“The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.”
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“I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.”
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“But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.”
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“I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.”
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“Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.”
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“I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.”
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“People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.”
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“I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.”
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“Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!”
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“Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.”
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“When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.”
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“Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.”
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“We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.”
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“If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag.”
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“The 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.”
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“Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.”
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“Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.”
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“People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.”
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“I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.”
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“One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.”
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“Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.”
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“I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge ***** and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra?”
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“I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.”
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“Music gives color to the air of the moment.”
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“To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don't skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.”
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“Its all about taste.If you are cheap, nothing helps”
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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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“Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.”
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“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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“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.”
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“Personality begins where comparison ends.”
-- Karl LagerfeldSource : Twitter post from Jul 03, 2012
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“Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue”
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“With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.”
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“Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women--forget about that. Forget about that. It's a very bad way of thinking.”
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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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