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Karl Lagerfeld [1938-0] German

Rank: 101
Designer, Fashion Designer

Karl Otto Lagerfeld is a German fashion designer, artist, and photographer based in Paris. He is the head designer and creative director of the fashion house Chanel as well as the Italian house Fendi and his own fashion label.

Teacher, Attitude, Beauty, Best, Christmas, Diet, Funny, Future, Imagination, Legal, Music, Time, War, Women

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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.	Beauty, Time	101
I never played with anything like toys.		102
Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.		103
No one wants to see curvy women.	Women	104
The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.	Music	105
Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.		106
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.		107
What I love best in life is new starts.	Best	108
People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.		109
The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!		110
I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.		111
People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.		112
I don't eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.		113
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.	Teacher	114
I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.	Funny	115
I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.		116
Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.		117
Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.		118
I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.		119
Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.		120
I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.		121
The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.		122
I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.		123
I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!		124
Work is making a living out of being bored.		125
I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.		126
Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.		201
What I hate is nasty, ugly people.		202
Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.		203
When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.	Attitude	204
It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.		205
Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.		206
I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.		207
I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.		208
There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.		209
I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.		210
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.	Imagination	211
I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.	War	212
I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.	Future	213
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.		214
You cannot be creative with people around you.		215
My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.		216
T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.		217
I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.		218
I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.		219
I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.		220
I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.	Diet	221
You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.		222
Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.		223
I don't want to be on the Internet.		224
I have no human feelings.		225
I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.		226
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.		301
If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.		302
Who buys French cars? Not me.		303
A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.		304
I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.		305
I never fall in love.		306
I'm a working-class person, working with class.		307
I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.		308
Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.	Christmas	309
The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.		310
Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.		311
I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.		312
It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.		313
No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.		314
No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.		315
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.		316
Music is part of the life of fashion, too.		317
Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.		318
What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before.		319
I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.		320
In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.		321
I'm totally myself.		322
Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.		323
I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.		324
There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.		325
I can do whatever I want.		326
I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.		401
No, I never thought I would like cats.		402
I hate the past - especially my own past.		403
I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind.		404
The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.		405
I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know.		406
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.		407
Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.		408
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.		409
I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.		410
There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.		411
I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.		412
I'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.		413
I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.		414
I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.		415
I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.		416
Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.		417
I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.		418
Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.		419
Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'		420
I didn't play with other children.		421
I hardly went to school.		422
My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.		423
My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.		424
I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.		425
My hair is not really white; it's kind of grayish, and I don't like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.		426
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.		501
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.	Teacher	502
I'm always relaxed.		503
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.	Legal	504
I don't have any stress. I'm very lucky. I live a very healthy life.		505
No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.		506
I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.		507
Personally, I don't wear fur.		508
What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.		509
I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.		510
I'm not a fortune-teller.		511
I'm an iPod person.		512
I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.		513
I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.		514
I don't do meetings.		515
I love to watch times change!		516
I do my job like I breathe.		517
I eat next to nothing.		518
If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.		519
For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.		520
I have more friends in New York than Paris.		521
The way I talk is bizarre.		522
I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.		523
Some people would like me to be round again.		524
I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.		525
I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.		526
My opinion can be completely different after a show.		601
Buy clothes the size you want to wear.		602
My mother did not like children.		603

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