Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.
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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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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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I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long.
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If someone gives me a to-do list, I say 'thank you, this is nice.' One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.
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There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.
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I'm rather pro-prostitution, I admire people who do it. It can't be much fun. Thank goodness for it. People need relief or they become murderers.
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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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Today couture has to be expensive, but it shouldn’t look expensive.
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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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Of course there are some evening dresses that you cannot wear in daylight because it would be ridiculous, but there is a kind of dressy touch for daywear, too, ... And everything, it's easy. There's no barrier between dressy, day and sports. It's feminine 24 hours a day.
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What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
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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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Fashion is what people wear not only what you see on the Runway
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I always think I'm lazy, maybe I could do better, I could make more effort and I always have the feeling that there is a glass wall that I cannot get through. But maybe when I get through, then it's over.
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Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.
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I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.
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Beauty with character ages better than perfection.
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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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A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
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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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Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. 'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. I can do what I want in all kinds of areas. The expenses are not expenses. I would be stupid to stop that. Work is making a living out of being bored.
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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
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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.