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.
When you're young, you think that clothes are almost magical, and that if you wear the right thing - to school, to the prom, on the date, etc. - something's going to happen. Black, it's the anti-magical thing. It comes from the recognition that it is not going to be 'the' dress.
I want my clothes, my stores, everything I design to have that feeling of being natural and easy. And that takes effort, but you try not to have it show.
I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
I am not looking like Armani today and somebody else tomorrow. I look like Ralph Lauren. And my goal is to constantly move in fashion and move in style without giving up what I am.
Fashion changes, Style remains
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