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.
When I started, I knew nothing about fashion. I remember, my first day going to my agency, I was wearing these huge bell-bottoms - they were patchwork corduroy and denim, which, at the time, I thought were amazing. My agent told me, 'You have a casting with Prada - you have to burn those jeans.'
Vogue always did stand for people's lives. I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress, and the sort of life you had lived before, and what you will do in it later.
I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.
One of the most important things about fashion is to dress as well as you can, look as attractive as you can, and at the same time be comfortable with yourself. Be easy about your clothes; forget about them.
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.
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