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.
Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first Vogue cover. It was French Vogue - I think in β87 or β88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, "Oh, no. Weβve never had that before."
For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.
I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
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.
They (fashion editors) have always been our secret weapon.
I'm giving curvy women a seat at a table that we've never been invited to before - a table with high-end fashion people who have never considered us beautiful.
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