Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
Interpretation
Fashion designers have significant influence over what is considered stylish or fashionable.
This quote by Karl Lagerfeld suggests that fashion designers wield considerable power in shaping societal standards of beauty and taste. By dictating trends and styles, they can influence how people perceive and express themselves through clothing, making them akin to dictators in the realm of fashion.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about the impact of fashion on culture during a seminar.
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.
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What I am after, above all, is expression.
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.
Writers seem mesmerized by the state - the temporal entity. The word 'perestroika' is impressed somehow on our minds. But that is not the duty of a writer.
The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.
Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
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