Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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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Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.
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You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur
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You have to lead your life according to your ideas. Spend all your money and live life in line with what you are fighting for. I hate it when rich people try to be Communists. I think that’s obscene.
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I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
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What I love best in life is new starts.
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I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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Personality begins where comparison ends.
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What I do Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be, could be, what it had been to something else.
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Personally, I don't wear fur.
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There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - don't want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.
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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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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
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I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.
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There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.
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My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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No, I never thought I would like cats.