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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.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I like to be on TV when interviewers are good. I like it especially when it's live. When they can cut things, I don't like it as much. Sometimes they cut something and say, "Well, you would get in trouble, you would get a lawsuit." I tell them, "Well, I don't want my lawyers to be unemployed."
Karl Lagerfeld
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If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois.
Karl Lagerfeld
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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 like everything to be washable, myself included.
Karl Lagerfeld
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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.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections.
Karl Lagerfeld
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What I hate most in life are people who are not really the peach of the day but who want to be young and sexy. You can fool nobody. There is a moment when you have to accept that somebody else is younger and fresher and hotter. Life is not a beauty contest.
Karl Lagerfeld
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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.
Karl Lagerfeld
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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.'
Karl Lagerfeld
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If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
Karl Lagerfeld
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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.
Karl Lagerfeld
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We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility
Karl Lagerfeld
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The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.
Karl Lagerfeld
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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.
Karl Lagerfeld
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There will never be a chanel collection without black
Karl Lagerfeld
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Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.
Karl Lagerfeld
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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
Karl Lagerfeld
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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.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
Karl Lagerfeld
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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.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I don't even want to have things associated with my name on the internet - it's very dangerous.
Karl Lagerfeld
