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

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
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Hamburg
Freie und Hansestadt
Karl Otto Lagerfeldt
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People in magazines are 50% bimbo and 50% pregnant women.
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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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I didn't play with other children.
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I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.
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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.'
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If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.
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I buy my shoes a size too small. I like the way it feels.
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I don't understand the change of hair...Frankly, the fringe was a bad idea. It's not good.
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Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.
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You have to lead your life according to your ideas. Spend all your money and live life in line with what you are fighting for. I hate it when rich people try to be Communists. I think that’s obscene.
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I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections.
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