The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - it’s okay for clothes not that great for people
Interpretation
Focusing on past experiences can diminish the value of your present and personal growth.
This quote emphasizes the importance of living in the present and not idealizing the past. When we fixate on the belief that the past was superior, we risk devaluing our current experiences and stunting our personal development, much like outdated fashion may lose its appeal over time. Lagerfeld suggests that instead of yearning for the past, we should appreciate and embrace our current selves.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing change and personal development.
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.
Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.
I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome.
Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.
There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn't eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents. You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.
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