Karl Lagerfeld Quotes & Sayings

#1. 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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#2. 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.

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#3. I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

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#4. 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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#5. We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

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#6. 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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#7. I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

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#8. Some people would like me to be round again.

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#9. When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.

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#10. I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes
it's about all kinds of change

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#11. Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

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#12. If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

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#13. I like to reinvent myself - it's part of my job.

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#14. 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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#15. Adele is another problem. I never said that she was fat. I said that she was a little roundish; a little roundish is not fat. But for such a beautiful girl ... after that she lost eight kilos [17.6 pounds] so I think the message was not that bad.

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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. I am a sort of vampire, taking the blood of other people.

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#19. I eat next to nothing.

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#20. Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

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#21. My mother did not like children.

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#22. 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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#23. The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.

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#24. Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women
forget about that. Forget about that. It's a very bad way of thinking.

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#25. I'm not a fortune-teller.

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#26. Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue

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#27. I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

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#28. I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

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#29. Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

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#30. I think it's very important what young people see in pictures or on TV or in magazines. Drugs, violence, anorexia. All of the things that I absolutely do not reference in my photos.

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#31. I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.

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#32. What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

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#33. I'm a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant.

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#34. Fashion is what people wear not only what you see on the Runway

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#35. Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

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#36. 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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#37. To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don't skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.

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#38. I care more about the people than about the company. That's why I don't want to own it. I don't want to run a business. People do it better than I do.

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#39. I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

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#40. 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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#41. 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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#42. I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.

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#43. There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes.

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#44. Forget about your folklore. I can take a few inspirations, but I can certainly not do an homage. That's not my trip. I'm a fashion vampire. I take what I need and I leave the rest.

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#45. Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people ... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life ... they are mean and they want to kill you.

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#46. Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

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#47. As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.

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#48. When things become too popular they are always fading away for something else.

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#49. I'm trying to think of the last time I had onions.

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#50. The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

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#51. I like imagination
and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be
better than reality.

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#52. Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.

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#53. Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.

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#54. Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty

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#55. I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.

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#56. Don't use expensive clothes as a screen for your personal doubts. Be proud of yourself

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#57. Don't wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.

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#58. I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.

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#59. 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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#60. Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn't have it naked, she'll never it clothed.

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#61. I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

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#62. 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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#63. I do my job like I breathe - so if I can't breathe I'm in trouble.

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#64. 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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#65. If you're not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.

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#66. We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It's like hunger and thirst - you need them both.

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#67. 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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#68. When I was very young, at the beginning my business was to work more than the others to show them their pointlessness.

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#69. I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.

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#70. T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.

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#71. I have no idea of the future
never, ever. That's what I like about fashion. It's paradise now.

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#72. Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.

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#73. Forgiveness isn't something I'm preoccupied with - turning the other cheek isn't my trip.

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#74. 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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#75. I only know how to play one role: me.

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#76. Stuff your brain with knowledge.

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#77. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.

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#78. I'm an iPod person.

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#79. I have more friends in New York than Paris.

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#80. My opinion can be completely different after a show.

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#81. I like chocolate. I don't eat it, but I like the smell of it. People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose. I would love to have a perfume based on chocolate.

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#82. I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.

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#83. I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

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#84. What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.

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#85. 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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#86. Trendy is the last stage before tacky.

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#87. That's why I sleep alone. My hair is curly, and that's why I have my ponytail. I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie,

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#88. 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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#89. 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.

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#90. 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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#91. The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.

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#92. 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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