Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.
Interpretation
Fashion emphasizes innovation and the future rather than nostalgia and the past.
This quote by Karl Lagerfeld suggests that the essence of fashion lies in its progressive nature. Rather than dwelling on past styles or memories of previous trends, fashion is an ever-evolving field that embraces new ideas, creativity, and forward-thinking, pushing boundaries to create something fresh and relevant for the present and future.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of modern design, one could reference Lagerfeld's quote to emphasize the necessity of looking ahead rather than being trapped in past trends.
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.
I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
When I started, I knew nothing about fashion. I remember, my first day going to my agency, I was wearing these huge bell-bottoms - they were patchwork corduroy and denim, which, at the time, I thought were amazing. My agent told me, 'You have a casting with Prada - you have to burn those jeans.'
There shouldn't be a segregation of women over a size 16, it should just be all women who want to wear beautiful clothes.
Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first Vogue cover. It was French Vogue - I think in β87 or β88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, "Oh, no. Weβve never had that before."
Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: 'One must not hide that!' Then someone tells you: 'The shoulder is on the back'. I have never seen women with shoulders on their backs.
I love black dresses. I think everyone should own a lot, but black dresses don't sell online because on the computer they don't read like anything.
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