Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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Trendy is the last stage before tacky.
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Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn't have it naked, she'll never it clothed.
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I’m like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road. I’m here for two days in New York; I leave in the morning early. I come back for Anna Wintour’s party at the Met, then again at the end of May for a prize I get from the Gordon Parks Foundation.
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Work is making a living out of being bored.
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People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.
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I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.
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Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.
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Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.
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When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.
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My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
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They are this horrible thing where you are distorted. The chin is too big, the head is too small. No, this is electronic masturbation.
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I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.
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I have no human feelings.
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A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.
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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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At my age, I don’t need to be a sexy bundle of muscles, thank you very much.
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I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens
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I do my job like I breathe.
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They're my burka... I'm a little shortsighted, and people, when they're shortsighted, they remove their glasses and then they look like cute little dogs who want to be adopted.
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The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.
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Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.
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The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work.
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Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't.
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Buy clothes the size you want to wear.