Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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You know, I don't ask myself too much how. I just do it.
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Fantasy is often better than reality. It’s much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.
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Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.
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Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.
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Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.
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I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
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What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
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I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing.
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Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?
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Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
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Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
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Beauty with character ages better than perfection.
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I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.
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Beauty—or the desire to be beautiful—is in itself a dangerous motivation. Someone (I forgot who) once said, ‘Does the person who loves someone for their beauty really love them?’ So don’t focus on beauty ... a respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul. It is the sum of our experiences that makes us interesting, and having been through a time in your life in which you were in a bad place (or what you perceived as a bad place) physically, can be useful. It can even be necessary.
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I sketch in a way that people can nearly do the dresses without me coming in for a fitting. Every single detail, every proportion, every cut -- everything.
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Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it's more of an evocation of what you do. It's more an evocation of seduction.
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I don't have prejudices. I'm against taboos. But of course there are some things I'll never touch - because as a mom, there are things one doesn't want their children to be around.
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The way I talk is bizarre.
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Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive
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There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes.
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EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.
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People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.
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We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.
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There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.