I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.
Interpretation
This quote reflects a sense of nostalgia for a bygone era in Germany, highlighting a conflict between identity and change.
Karl Lagerfeld's quote expresses a deep sense of personal and cultural identity tied to a Germany that no longer exists. It suggests that one's mental and emotional sense of self can be influenced by historical contexts, where the individual's mindset may be anchored in a past that has transformed or faded away, leading to a contemplation of how identity can be shaped by history and loss.
In practice
In a discussion about cultural identity during a conference.
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.
Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise.
Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.
Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.
The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
When the supreme magistrate will not execute the judgment of the Lord, those who made him supreme magistrate, under God, who have under God, sovereighn liberty to dispose of crowns and kingdoms, are to execute the judgment of the Lord, when wicked men make the law of God of none effect.
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