You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
Interpretation
Prioritize your personal style over trends and be innovative with your wardrobe.
This quote emphasizes the importance of individual expression through fashion, suggesting that personal identity should take precedence over societal expectations. Karl Lagerfeld encourages us to be inventive with our existing clothing instead of constantly seeking new items, inspiring creativity and self-acceptance in style choices.
In practice
This quote could be used during a fashion workshop to inspire participants to think creatively about their wardrobe.
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 always wear what I'm comfortable in. If one designer doesn't like what I'm wearing, the next one will.
If fashion is for everyone, is it fashion? The answer goes far beyond the collections and relates to the speed of fast fashion. There is no longer a time gap between when a small segment of fashion-conscious people pick up a trend and when it is all over the sidewalks.
In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.
Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.
When you think of the blur of all the brands that are out there, the ones you believe in and the ones you remember, like Chanel and Armani, are the ones that stand for something. Fashion is about establishing an image that consumers can adapt to their own individuality. And it's an image that can change, that can evolve. It doesn't reinvent itself every two years.
Fashion should be about making clothes that make all women look beautiful, not making women starve so that they can fit in a size 8.
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