Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of innovation and creativity using what we already have.
Karl Lagerfeld highlights the value of creativity through the process of reinventing and combining existing resources. He suggests that one should engage in improvisation and creative thinking not out of necessity, but out of desire, framing evolution as a vital step in personal and artistic growth.
In practice
This quote can be shared at a creative workshop to inspire participants.
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.
It's hard to be fully creative without structure and constraint. Try to paint without a canvas. Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds. Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.
When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.
Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.
It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.
If we're free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running from it.
I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I'm not there, they go away again.
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