Buy clothes the size you want to wear.
Interpretation
Wear clothes that fit your desired style rather than your current size.
Karl Lagerfeld emphasizes the importance of confidence and aspiration in fashion. He suggests that one should purchase clothing that reflects their ideal self-image, rather than limiting themselves to what currently fits, encouraging a mindset of ambition and self-acceptance.
In practice
In a fashion seminar discussing personal branding.
I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.
I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag.
Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't.
Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. 'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. I can do what I want in all kinds of areas. The expenses are not expenses. I would be stupid to stop that. Work is making a living out of being bored.
Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.
Fashion goes in only one direction -forward- and I am a firm believer in thinking that way too.
Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.
I never want to promote an ad that makes women feel bad about themselves, because when I was young, I never felt rich enough or fashionable enough or good enough. I felt talked down to by luxury fashion labels. There was a disconnect. They made me feel we weren't right for each other.
Clothes are status signifiers, and no matter how restrained, they always give you subtle symbols of what your values are.
A well dressed man is a best accessory a woman can have
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