Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
Interpretation
Fashion serves as a medium of expression that translates our perceptions of reality into visual form.
This quote by Karl Lagerfeld emphasizes that fashion is more than just clothing; it is a form of communication that reflects and interprets the reality we live in. Through the choices we make in our attire, we convey messages about ourselves and our perspectives on the world, creating a dynamic dialogue with society and culture.
In practice
During a fashion seminar, one could use this quote to highlight the interpretative power of clothing.
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 don't believe that clothes can start a revolution, but I do believe that fashion is often a manifestation of a sociological or political climate.
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be.
The workmanship was better than the subject matter.
I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I like to do, what I've always wanted to do.
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