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.
These heels are candy for the feet; they’re for pleasure, not practicality.
Go out there and try on everything - short skirts, long skirts, mid length, little jackets, men's clothing - and really look at yourself; really walk around in the clothes. Don't just take someone else's advice. You must feel you in these clothes and feel what it's like to live in them.
I love black dresses. I think everyone should own a lot, but black dresses don't sell online because on the computer they don't read like anything.
Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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