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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.

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
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Jobs
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Enough
Unprofessional
Great
Decently
People
Amateurs
Pretend

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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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I hate birthdays, .. It's more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it's an evolution. I don't celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.
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We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
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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 think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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When I was very young, at the beginning my business was to work more than the others to show them their pointlessness.
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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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I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.
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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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What I hate most in life are people who are not really the peach of the day but who want to be young and sexy. You can fool nobody. There is a moment when you have to accept that somebody else is younger and fresher and hotter. Life is not a beauty contest.
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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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