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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.

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
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I’m like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road. I’m here for two days in New York I leave in the morning early. I come back for Anna Wintour’s party at the Met, then again at the end of May for a prize I get from the Gordon Parks Foundation.
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I buy my shoes a size too small. I like the way it feels.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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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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I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.
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With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
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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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If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois.
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I lost 200lb to wear suits by Hedi Slimane
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I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
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Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women--forget about that. Forget about that. It's a very bad way of thinking.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.
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I'm rather pro-prostitution, I admire people who do it. It can't be much fun. Thank goodness for it. People need relief or they become murderers.
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You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur
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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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I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
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