Today couture has to be expensive, but it shouldn’t look expensive.
Interpretation
Couture should be valuable yet effortlessly elegant.
Karl Lagerfeld's quote emphasizes that high fashion, or couture, can be expensive in terms of craftsmanship and materials, but it should convey a sense of luxury that feels not ostentatious or overly showy. The essence lies in achieving elegance that appears natural rather than forced, suggesting that true style doesn't need to scream its worth.
In practice
A fashion designer's presentation about modern couture designs.
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.
The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion.
I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as costumes. . . . That’s mundane and it’s old hat. Let’s break down some barriers.
Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses.
I'm not a fashion victim, and I don't closely follow trends. I dress the way I feel comfortable because, at the end of the day, you have to be comfortable.
I always wear what I'm comfortable in. If one designer doesn't like what I'm wearing, the next one will.
Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.
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