“Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.” --Karl Lagerfeld
His friend, former French Vogue editor Joan Juliet Buck, later recalls, “They hired him to do the fur, and he throws out these unbelievable challenges: ‘Let’s line fur in fur, let’s knit fur, let’s tear fur up, let’s make holes in fur, let’s paint on fur, let’s paint on
shearling.’ ”
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- The success of Karl Lagerfeld—who can reportedly turn out 200 original lightning-speed sketches in a twelve-hour stretch—is founded on a high level of technical skill, honed from an early age.
- “My job,” Lagerfeld has said, “is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.”[4]
- “Tradition is something you have to handle carefully, because it can kill you,”