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I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.

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Karl Lagerfeld
Age: 85 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 10
Died: 2019
Died: February 19
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Costume Designer
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Fashion Designer
Fashion Photographer
Film Director
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Postage Stamp Designer
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Hamburg
Freie und Hansestadt
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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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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.
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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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Keep the best, forget the rest.
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If you attach no importance to weight problems, if not being able to wear new, trendy small-sized clothes does not cause you any regret, this book is not for you.
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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.
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Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
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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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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
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If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.
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Don't use expensive clothes as a screen for your personal doubts. Be proud of yourself
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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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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Its all about taste.If you are cheap, nothing helps
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Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.
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