If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag.
Interpretation
The quote humorously expresses a desire to be a fashion item, highlighting the significance of fashion in one's identity.
Karl Lagerfeld's quote reflects a playful take on fashion and consumer culture, suggesting that a shopping bag symbolizes both utility and style. It indicates how fashion accessories can carry personal identity and societal status, as well as the joy of participating in the world of fashion.
In practice
In a conversation about personal style at a fashion event.
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.
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.
Itβs up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible. _x000D_ Itβs a question of will and discipline.
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time.
If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.
The way a character looks reflects what's on the inside. I can make myself look really bad, and I can make myself look kind of gorgeous. It's not about me; it's about the character.
I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.
Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
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