These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.
Interpretation
This quote critiques societal standards of beauty, highlighting the gap between real bodies and the idealized images in fashion.
Karl Lagerfeld's quote comments on the discrepancies between society's beauty standards and reality, emphasizing how fashion often perpetuates unrealistic ideals. He suggests that the fashion industry is more concerned with aesthetic dreams and illusions than with the diversity of body types, as shown by the disdain expressed by those who embody a different standard of beauty while criticizing it.
In practice
This quote can be used in discussions about body positivity and beauty standards at fashion shows or panels.
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.
The difference between style and fashion is quality.
The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the time and the economic resources. They want to go shopping.
Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses.
When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as costumes. . . . That’s mundane and it’s old hat. Let’s break down some barriers.
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
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