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Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.

Karl Lagerfeld

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Karl Lagerfeld
Age: 85 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 10
Died: 2019
Died: February 19
Collector
Costume Designer
Dressmaker
Fashion Designer
Fashion Photographer
Film Director
Photographer
Postage Stamp Designer
Publisher
Hamburg
Freie und Hansestadt
Karl Otto Lagerfeldt
Karl Otto Lagerfeld
Karl-Otto Lagerfeld
Success
Nullifies
Preferably
Differently

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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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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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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.
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During the golden age of movie stars, there were plenty of actresses who were deemed unattractive at the start of their careers, but struggled and finally appeared more beautiful and more iconic. Sometimes that idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.
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I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.
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I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
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Keep the best, forget the rest.
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I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny.
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I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed!
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A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That's what you need to make a legend survive.
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I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
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Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.
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I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there's no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.
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I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
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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 br
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People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.
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Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea.
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You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?
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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue
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