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.
I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
Do people choose the art that inspires them β do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.
There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might go, 'Oh, wow, that's spectacular.' Or that spectacular shot, a big crane move, or something. But it's not necessarily right for the film β you jump out, you think about the surface, and you don't stay in there with the characters and the story.
Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like.
My initial thoughts about what a title can do was to set mood and the prime underlying core of the film's story, to express the story in some metaphorical way. I saw the title as a way of conditioning the audience, so that when the film actually began, viewers would already have an emotional resonance with it.
You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.
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