Buy clothes the size you want to wear.
Interpretation
Wear clothes that fit your desired style rather than your current size.
Karl Lagerfeld emphasizes the importance of confidence and aspiration in fashion. He suggests that one should purchase clothing that reflects their ideal self-image, rather than limiting themselves to what currently fits, encouraging a mindset of ambition and self-acceptance.
In practice
In a fashion seminar discussing personal branding.
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.
Fashion goes in only one direction -forward- and I am a firm believer in thinking that way too.
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
Whoever's designing for plus-size doesn't get it. The entire garment needs to be reconceived. You can't just take a size 8 and make it larger.
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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.
You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.
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