Don't use expensive clothes as a screen for your personal doubts. Be proud of yourself
Interpretation
Value self-worth over superficial appearances, as confidence comes from within.
This quote emphasizes that relying on expensive clothing to mask insecurities is not a solution for personal doubts. Instead, it encourages individuals to take pride in who they are, suggesting that true self-esteem comes from personal acceptance rather than external appearances. The message is about authenticity and the importance of recognizing one's intrinsic worth.
In practice
During a workshop on self-esteem, this quote can be shared to inspire participants to embrace their individuality.
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.
It's not about what it looks like in the studio or on the runway. It's what it looks like on a real person that matters.
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.
I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.
When you think of the blur of all the brands that are out there, the ones you believe in and the ones you remember, like Chanel and Armani, are the ones that stand for something. Fashion is about establishing an image that consumers can adapt to their own individuality. And it's an image that can change, that can evolve. It doesn't reinvent itself every two years.
When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
Never, ever, ever wear anything you are uncomfortable in. Because that is what you'll project: 'I look like a fool.'
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