When I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: 'You shouldn't smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke.
Karl Lagerfeld
When I was 14, I wanted to ...
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Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?
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You have to be impeccable - I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.
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My sisters were sent away because my mother thought they were boring. I was not boring.
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When I was four, I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.
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When I was a child, my mother always told me that you could wake up in the middle of the night and be deathly sick, so you always have to be impeccable. I laugh about it now, but I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
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