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You have to like the present if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Karl Lagerfeld
Age: 85 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 10
Died: 2019
Died: February 19
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Costume Designer
Dressmaker
Fashion Designer
Fashion Photographer
Film Director
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Postage Stamp Designer
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Hamburg
Freie und Hansestadt
Karl Otto Lagerfeldt
Karl Otto Lagerfeld
Karl-Otto 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 book has to be easy to open and you don't have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.
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If I read too much or know too much it's not because I want to talk about it, it's only because it's interesting for me.
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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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Buy clothes the size you want to wear.
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I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all.
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Evolution is the secret for the next step.
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It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.
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When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
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Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?
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I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.
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I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
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Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.
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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.
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Personally, I don't wear fur.
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Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.
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I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.
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I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.
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There will never be a chanel collection without black
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No, I have someone who comes to the house and washes it, puts in the dry shampoo, and takes care if it because I have no time.
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