Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Karl Lagerfeld:
It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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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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Buy clothes the size you want to wear.
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.
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Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.
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I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
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What I love best in life is new starts.
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I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.
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There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.
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If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
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I didn't play with other children.
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For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
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I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.
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My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.
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I'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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The way I talk is bizarre.
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I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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I can do whatever I want.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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I never fall in love.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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I'm totally myself.
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I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
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I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.
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My mother did not like children.
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The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.
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I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
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I hate the past - especially my own past.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.
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I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know.
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I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.
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I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
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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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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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I hardly went to school.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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I do my job like I breathe.
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I'm a working-class person, working with class.
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I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
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Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.
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What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before.
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T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.
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I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.
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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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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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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
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I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.
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In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
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People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.
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I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.
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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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I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.
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I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.
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I'm an iPod person.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.
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I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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No, I never thought I would like cats.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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Work is making a living out of being bored.
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Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.
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I never played with anything like toys.
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You cannot be creative with people around you.
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I don't do meetings.
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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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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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I eat next to nothing.
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I'm always relaxed.
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I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
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I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.
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Who buys French cars? Not me.
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I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind.
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I have no human feelings.
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I love to watch times change!
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The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!
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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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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.
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Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.
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I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.
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I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.
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I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
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Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
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Personally, I don't wear fur.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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I don't eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.
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I'm not a fortune-teller.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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Some people would like me to be round again.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
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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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There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
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No one wants to see curvy women.
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I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.
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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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I don't have any stress. I'm very lucky. I live a very healthy life.
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I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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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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You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
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My hair is not really white; it's kind of grayish, and I don't like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.
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