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“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“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
― Karl Lagerfeld
“The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“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
― Karl Lagerfeld
“You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“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
― Karl Lagerfeld
“Music gives color to the air of the moment.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“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
― Karl Lagerfeld
“Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“I'm very down to Earth, I'm just not from this Earth.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“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
― Karl Lagerfeld
“I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“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
― Karl Lagerfeld
“Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“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
― Karl Lagerfeld
“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.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
“Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
― Karl Lagerfeld
