Karl Lagerfeld Quotes - Page 5

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• I had an interview once with some German journalist - some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists - maybe a week after - and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, "It's impolite; remove your glasses." I said, "Do I ask you to remove your bra?"

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  Glasses, Sweaters, Yellow

  "Karl Lagerfeld meets his match". Interview, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2011.

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• It’s great that in life you do something that you want to do because you like doing it and you’re not bored. I’m not bored at all. I’m even interested in lots of things, more so today than before.

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  Bored, Want, Today

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• The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.

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  Beautiful, Dream, Car

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• I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.

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  Personality, Three, Looks

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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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  Girl, Fashion, Stories

  "Karl Lagerfeld: Models Are Not That Skinny" by Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2012.

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• The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

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  Mom, Mother, Children

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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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  Nice, Giving, Needs

  Twitter post from Feb 27, 2012

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• No one wants to see curvy women.

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  Want, Curvy Women, Curvy

  "'No One Wants to See Curvy Women'". www.spiegel.de. October 14, 2009.

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• Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.

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  Fashion, Style, Doe

  "Geeks and Fashion Make Strange Bedfellows" by Curtis Silver, www.wired.com. March 05, 2010.

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• The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.

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  Quality, Moral, Common

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• I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

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  Hands, Sketching, Born

  "Karl Lagerfeld on Diets, Sobriety, and Becoming a 'Nicer Person'". Interview with Jessica Chastain, www.thecut.com. November 7, 2013.

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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.

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  Hate, Mirrors, People

  "Media People: Q&A With Karl Lagerfeld". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. September 12, 2014.

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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.

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  Clothes, People, Feelings

  "Karl Lagerfeld, Global Aphorist" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. July 17, 2009.

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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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  Thinking, People, Horrible

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• We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

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  Dark, World, Tragic

  "In the now" by John Colapinto, www.newyorker.com. March 19, 2007.

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• 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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  Sex, Sleep, People

  "Karl Lagerfeld meets his match". Interview with Bruce LaBruce, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2011.

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• What I do Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be, could be, what it had been to something else.

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  Labels, Updates, Should

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• Sometimes the idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.

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  Beautiful, Ideas, Trying

  Interview with Karl Lagerfeld, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 18, 2011.

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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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  Way, Persons, Shocking

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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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  Morning, Vacation, Office

  "Karl Lagerfeld On His Hair, Women In Thongs & The Last Time He Cried" by Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2011.

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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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  Fall, Sleep, Two

  FaceBook post by KARL LAGERFELD from Mar 28, 2012

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• If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.

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  Mean, Past, Want

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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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  Fun, Phones, Paris

  "Karl Lagerfeld’s Glassware for Orrefors". Interview with Dana Thomas, www.architecturaldigest.com. September 30, 2011.

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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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  Beauty, Beautiful, Fashion

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• I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.

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  Morning, Waiting, Generations

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