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Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.Karl Lagerfeld
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We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.Karl Lagerfeld
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A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soulKarl Lagerfeld
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.Karl Lagerfeld
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We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst – you need them both.Karl Lagerfeld
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Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.Karl Lagerfeld
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Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.Karl Lagerfeld
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Stuff your brain with knowledge.Karl Lagerfeld
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People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.Karl Lagerfeld
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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.Karl Lagerfeld
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The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.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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Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.Karl Lagerfeld
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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.Karl Lagerfeld
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The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.Karl Lagerfeld
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I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.Karl Lagerfeld
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Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.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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Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.Karl Lagerfeld
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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?Karl Lagerfeld
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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.Karl Lagerfeld
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Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with – turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.Karl Lagerfeld
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I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.Karl Lagerfeld
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Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.Amit Kalantri
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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggestsKarl Lagerfeld
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Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore — and then you get something out of herKarl Lagerfeld
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Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positiveKarl Lagerfeld
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The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engineKarl Lagerfeld
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For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with themKarl Lagerfeld
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Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differentlyKarl Lagerfeld
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Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signsKarl Lagerfeld
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Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans – it’s up to you.Karl Lagerfeld
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Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.Karl Lagerfeld
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If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.Karl Lagerfeld
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You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake furKarl Lagerfeld
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Music gives color to the air of the moment.Karl Lagerfeld
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I like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.Karl Lagerfeld
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The true ENTREPRENEUR is a risk taker, not an excuse maker.VDEXTERS
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In a timepiece, a sweep of a second hand is so slim in a way that it doesn't wait for no man, and that's why we choose to conceive things from the heart.Shawn Lukas
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Graceful beauty is a modest appearance.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Normal, average and ordinary are not a part of my vocabulary. I am an artist after all!Paul S. Lynch
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Normal is not a part of my vocabulary. I am an artist after all.Paul S. Lynch
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Designer turns daily common objects to sexy and interesting stuff but not necessarily functional.Baris Gencel
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Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.Karl Lagerfeld
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Anna Wintour hadn't been to any of McQueen's shows, and McQueen didn't like it. McQueen said American Vogue could borrow the dress only if they flew it to New York and back, in its own seat, with an escort. It was a fuck-you and they took it, and the dress was shot by Richard Avedon. "Fashion people haven't got any brains, " McQueen said.Maureen Callahan
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Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman.Tom Wolfe
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There are two characters in me: a doodler and a tuner. And the only thing that makes me go crazy is when they both fight for their turn.Shawn Lukas
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He placed a pinch of snow on his tongue and thought of making snow ice cream with Frank and their mother when they were small boys - 'First you stir in the vanilla' - Frank standing on a stool on his wondrously functional pre- Libya legs, the bullet that would sever his spinal cord still twenty-five years away but already approaching: a woman giving birth to a child who will someday pull the trigger on a gun, a designer sketching the weapon or its precursor, a dictator making a decision that will spark in the fullness of time into the conflagration that Frank will go overseas to cover for Reuters, the pieces of a pattern drifting closer together.Unknown