Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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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You cannot fight against it. There's a price you have to pay for fame, and people who don't want to pay that price can get in trouble. I accepted the idea of celebrity because of a French expression: 'You cannot have the butter and the money for the butter.'
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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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I like the idea of craziness with discipline.
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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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We create a product nobody needs but people want. You spend more for what you really want; some boring things you need: an ugly old car can wait, but if you have a new fashion item it cannot wait.
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Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.
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I like everything to be washable, myself included.
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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.
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It’s great that in life you do something that you want to do because you like doing it and you’re not bored. I’m not bored at all. I’m even interested in lots of things, more so today than before.
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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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Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
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Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility
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When I was very young, at the beginning my business was to work more than the others to show them their pointlessness.
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The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.
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The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.
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I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
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There are so many third-rate people now who are more famous than people who should be famous, but sometimes people who could or should be famous are very boring, too.
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I’m not crazy to discuss fashion with men. I couldn’t care less about their opinion.
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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 am a completely different person when I am working on different collections.
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The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - it’s okay for clothes not that great for people
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I like chocolate. I don’t eat it, but I like the smell of it. People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose. I would love to have a perfume based on chocolate.
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I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.