I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
Interpretation
Karl Lagerfeld expresses a desire for individual success in the global fashion industry.
This quote highlights Karl Lagerfeld's ambition to create a powerful personal brand in the fashion world, emphasizing the idea that one person can lead and innovate on a large scale. It reflects a dream of individualism and the impact one can have in an industry that is often thought of as collective and conformist.
In practice
During a speech at a fashion conference, one might use this quote to inspire budding designers to believe in their own unique vision.
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.
Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.
I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do.
One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It’s because we’re different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.
Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.
The value of art is in the observer.
Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!
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