Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.
Interpretation
Fashion constantly evolves while also embracing contrasts.
This quote by Karl Lagerfeld highlights the dual nature of fashion, which is characterized by its continual progression as well as its tendency to showcase opposing styles and elements. It suggests that the essence of fashion lies in both its ability to change and innovate, and its capacity to draw upon contrasting ideas and aesthetics to create meaningful expressions.
In practice
During a fashion seminar to illustrate how trends evolve.
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.
Music is the perfect type of art.
What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.
But don't tell me I'm not sensitive to beauty. That's my Achilles' heel, and don't you forget it. To me, everything is beautiful. Show me a pink sunset and I'm limp, by God.
Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view.
For me, the Sundance Institute is just an extension of something I believed in, which is creating a mechanism for new voices to have a place to develop and be heard.
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