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| with 5 Euro coin he designed on Coco's 125th anniversary |
“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 am 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.” KL
Karl at home:
“We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst-you need them both.” KL
“Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.” KL
“With every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.” KL
“Change is the healthiest way to survive.” KL
“Apparently, I am very scary. But if you get to know me, you see I am very nice. Happily, I don’t look like I am.” KL
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| Monaco, La Vigie built by Sir William Ingram in 1902, owned by Karl till 1997, for 10 years |
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| La Vigie |
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| Six bedroom, 1840s house on an island in lake Champlain, Vermont |
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| At Vermont house |
“Owning things victimizes you and imprisons you.” KL
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| Cuckoo clock in Paris apartment |
Karl and his sketches:
“There is no Chanel collection without black. It will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes.” KL
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| Coco Chanel by Karl Lagerfeld |
Picture credits: Google etc.
Hello:
ReplyDeleteCuriouser and curiouser. Cleary a man of many, at times seemingly conflicting, moods, ideas and tastes.
What an extraordinary book collection, which does rather make us think that this is a man for whom passion is a way of life rather than a fleeting fancy.
of course. He collects things like crazy, look at his book collection. And then only he can get away by saying, " owning things victimizes you and imprisons you".
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