Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion Designer, Photographer

Karl Lagerfeld was a renowned fashion designer known for his innovative designs and distinctive personal style, significantly impacting the fashion industry.

Born
September 10, 1933
Quotes
369
Rank
#290

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"People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose."

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"I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind."

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"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."

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

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"Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them."

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"Beauty—or the desire to be beautiful—is in itself a dangerous motivation. Someone (I forgot who) once said, ‘Does the person who loves someone for their beauty really love them?’ So don’t focus on beauty ... a respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul. It is the sum of our experiences that makes us interesting, and having been through a time in your life in which you were in a bad place (or what you perceived as a bad place) physically, can be useful. It can even be necessary."

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"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."

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"In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story."

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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 am very boring, but it has allowed me to survive better than other people. If you don't drink, you don't smoke, and you don't do drugs, and you're not missing it and never even wanted it, and you sleep for seven hours. I tell you, life is quite pleasant."

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"Fur is not murder, but it is quite expensive."

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"When I was four, I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday."

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"It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter."

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"Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person."

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"When I wake up I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie! That's why I sleep alone. But the funny thing is that I'm very impeccable and clean before I go to bed. It's just like right before I'm going out."

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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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"You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?"

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"I only wear the latest thing. It's my job."

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"Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip."

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"Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that."

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