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.
I love music, I've always done music, felt it on a spiritual level and I write for myself and not anybody else.
I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.
Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.
People always ask me how I start a collection, and I tell them that I just look around. What am I tired of? What am I in the mood for? Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
The most important thing about creativity is that you honor your creativity and you don't ever ignore it or go against what that creative image is telling you.
Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.
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