Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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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The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
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Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.
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I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.
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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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If I read too much or know too much it's not because I want to talk about it, it's only because it's interesting for me.
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Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.
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Some models who aren't the most beautiful end up becoming the greatest of all time.
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I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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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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Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.
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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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I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home.
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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.
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I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
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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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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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We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
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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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I like newspapers. Maybe the iPad is very modern and everything, and I'm not against it, but I like the physical contact. And the physical contact of metal and glass is not as sensuous as paper.
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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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I like everything to be washable, myself included.
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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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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.