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Karl Lagerfeld

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They Are This Horrible Thing Where You Are Distorted. The Chin Is Too Big, The Head Is Too Small. No, This Is Electronic Masturbation.

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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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We Built Everything - Toilets Included. I Think Those Islands In The Middle Of Nowhere Are Quite Poetic. It's Kind Of An Oriental Atlantis.

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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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I Never Drink Anything Hot; I Don't Like Hot Drinks, Very Strange.

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The Clothes Don’t Have To Suit You; You Have To Suit The Clothes.

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I Don't Know Heidi Klum. She Was Never Known In France. Claudia Schiffer Also Doesn't Know Who She Is.

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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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Don't Use Your Film For Ugly Purpose.

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My Life Is Based On Change. What I Say Is Ok For The Next Ten Minutes, Then I Change My Mind.

I'm Not A Marketing Person. I Don't Ask Myself Questions. I Go By Instinct.

Elegance Has Nothing To Do With Fashion.

Fashion Is The Healthiest Motivation For Losing Weight.

I Live My Memoirs, I Don’t Have To Write Them Down.

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People Who Can't Be Alone Have A Problem. Loneliness Is A Luxury For People Like Me.

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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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.

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.

The Best Ideas I've Had In My Life Are Those I Saw In My Sleep, In The Early Morning.

I Have More Friends In New York Than Paris.

There Are So Many Third-rate People Now Who Are More Famous Than People Who Should Be Famous, But Sometimes People Who Could Or Should Be Famous Are Very Boring, Too.

You Cannot Fight Against It. There's A Price You Have To Pay For Fame, And People Who Don't Want To Pay That Price Can Get In Trouble. I Accepted The Idea Of Celebrity Because Of A French Expression: 'you Cannot Have The Butter And The Money For The Butter.'

Dieting Is The Only Game Where You Win When You Lose!

The Flat Shoe Makes The Woman Equal Of Men. When They Have High [shoes], They Play A Part Like A Geisha, And They Can't Be Expected To Be Taken That Seriously.

Bling Is Over. Red Carpet Covered With Rhinestones Is Out. I Call It 'the New Modesty.'

I Don't Understand The Change Of Hair...frankly, The Fringe Was A Bad Idea. It's Not Good.

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My Sisters Were Sent Away Because My Mother Thought They Were Boring. I Was Not Boring.

I Want Everyone To Wear What They Want And Mix It In Their Own Way. That, To Me, Is What Is Modern.

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.

I Buy My Shoes A Size Too Small. I Like The Way It Feels.

The Middle Has Not Enough Class That I Think About The Middle Class.

I’m Like A Rock Singer With One-night Stands On The Road. I’m Here For Two Days In New York; I Leave In The Morning Early. I Come Back For Anna Wintour’s Party At The Met, Then Again At The End Of May For A Prize I Get From The Gordon Parks Foundation.

Lana Del Rey Is Not Bad At All. She Looks Very Much Like A Modern-time Singer. In Her Photos She Is Beautiful. Is She A Construct With All Her Implants? She's Not Alone With Implants.

If I Were A Woman, I Would Love To Have Lots Of Kids. But For Men, I Don’t Believe In It.

I Think Everyone Should Go To Bed Like They Have A Date At The Door.

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.

I'm Rather Pro-prostitution, I Admire People Who Do It. It Can't Be Much Fun. Thank Goodness For It. People Need Relief Or They Become Murderers.

I Eat Fish, Three Times A Week Meat, And If Not Yogurt, Something Like This And It Rarely Continues.

You Come First, The Clothes Later. Reinvent New Combinations Of What You Already Own. Be Creative.

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.

I Like To Do Things Quickly Because I'm Easily Bored.

I Am Like A Caricature Of Myself, And I Like That. It Is Like A Mask. And For Me The Carnival Of Venice Lasts All Year Long.

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.

I'm Like A Rock Singer With One-night Stands On The Road.

Black-and-whit E Always Looks Modern, Whatever That Word Means.

I Don't Care If People I Admire Criticize Me Because Their Opinion Is Valuable To Me.

For Me, Chanel Is Like Music. There Are Certain Notes And You Have To Make Another Tune With Them.

The Best Way To Know People Is To Work With Them.

I Am Not A Fashion Victim. Fashion Is My Victim.

I Wanted To Become A Cartoon Artist, A Portrait Artist, And An Illustrator. This Was My First Idea.

I Like The Idea Of Craziness With Discipline.

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.

Black, Like White, Is The Best Color!

Sunglasses Are Like Eye Shadow: They Make Everything Look Younger And Pretty

Youthfulness Is About How You Live Not When You Were Born.

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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.

You Cannot Be Creative With People Around You.

In France There Are, I Think, Less Than One Per Cent Of People Who Are Too Skinny.

It Would Have Been Difficult To Have An Ugly Daughter.

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.

Only The Minute And The Future Are Interesting In Fashion -- It Exists To Be Destroyed. If Everybody Did Everything With Respect, You'd Go Nowhere.

Evolution Is The Secret For The Next Step.

You Have To Be Impeccable - I Was Always Told As A Child By My Mother That You Always Have To Be Impeccable, Even When You Go To Bed.

I'm Not An Employee Who Goes To The Office Every Morning At The Same Time. Then, Vacations Are Needed.

The Story With Anorexic Girls - Nobody Works With Anorexic Girls. That Has Nothing To Do With Fashion.

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No, I Never Thought I Would Like Cats.

Trendy Is The Last Stage Before Tacky.

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I’m Trying To Think Of The Last Time I Had Onions.

At My Age, I Don’t Need To Be A Sexy Bundle Of Muscles, Thank You Very Much.

I Have Now Exactly The Same Weight I Had When I Was 18, 20.

What I've Done, Coco Chanel Would Never Have Done. She Would Have Hated It.

Change Is The Healthiest Way To Survive.

I Was Never A Feminist Because I Was Never Ugly Enough For That.

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