I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
Interpretation
The speaker asserts their control over fashion, indicating that they set the trends rather than blindly following them.
In this quote, Karl Lagerfeld emphasizes a powerful perspective on fashion, suggesting that he views fashion as an entity that he dominates rather than being controlled by it. This attitude showcases a confidence in personal style and creativity, where true designers and trendsetters become the architects of fashion rather than mere consumers of it.
In practice
During a fashion seminar, one can use this quote to inspire aspiring designers to express their individuality.
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 search for different tonalities in my taps. But my greatest pleasure is hearing a note I haven't heard before, hearing a chord that sparks something new.
I can't imagine ever writing anything of any kind on a machine. I never tried to write either poetry or prose on a typewriter. I like to do it on useless paper, scrap paper, because it's of no importance.
I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn't have to follow 'Watchmen' and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I'm not a particularly dark individual.
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.
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