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You have to be impeccable - I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.
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Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. 'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. I can do what I want in all kinds of areas. The expenses are not expenses. I would be stupid to stop that. Work is making a living out of being bored.
Karl Lagerfeld
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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 tits 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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The iPod is genius. I have 300.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I didn't play with other children.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I don't even want to have things associated with my name on the internet - it's very dangerous.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
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My life is based on change. What I say is OK for the next ten minutes, then I change my mind.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.
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What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.
Karl Lagerfeld -
In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I always think I'm lazy, maybe I could do better, I could make more effort and I always have the feeling that there is a glass wall that I cannot get through. But maybe when I get through, then it's over.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.
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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.
Karl Lagerfeld
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People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality.
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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.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty
Karl Lagerfeld -
When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
Karl Lagerfeld -
My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I see things in the middle of the night. I draw them on paper and I don't even think about it. I'm like a machine in a way - just made of some electronic stuff. Vaguely digital.
Karl Lagerfeld
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For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.
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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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I lost 200lb to wear suits by Hedi Slimane
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I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.
Karl Lagerfeld