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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.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.
Karl Lagerfeld
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In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Fashion is what people wear not only what you see on the Runway
Karl Lagerfeld
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Today couture has to be expensive, but it shouldn’t look expensive.
Karl Lagerfeld
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When things become too popular they are always fading away for something else.
Karl Lagerfeld
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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.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I love to watch times change!
Karl Lagerfeld
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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
Karl Lagerfeld
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The clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.
Karl Lagerfeld
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My sisters were sent away because my mother thought they were boring. I was not boring.
Karl Lagerfeld
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A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
Karl Lagerfeld
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I only wear the latest thing. It's my job.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I like the present and tomorrow
Karl Lagerfeld
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Those social networks, there's something sad about them. Is it because they don't have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don't understand it. It's like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.
Karl Lagerfeld
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When I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: 'You shouldn't smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I buy my shoes a size too small. I like the way it feels.
Karl Lagerfeld
