These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.
Interpretation
This quote critiques societal standards of beauty, highlighting the gap between real bodies and the idealized images in fashion.
Karl Lagerfeld's quote comments on the discrepancies between society's beauty standards and reality, emphasizing how fashion often perpetuates unrealistic ideals. He suggests that the fashion industry is more concerned with aesthetic dreams and illusions than with the diversity of body types, as shown by the disdain expressed by those who embody a different standard of beauty while criticizing it.
In practice
This quote can be used in discussions about body positivity and beauty standards at fashion shows or panels.
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.
Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.
A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality. I look for that special piece that sets the watch apart from the norm. I want to have something unique that differentiates itself with style and glamour.
It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.
They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me
I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
Though designed as a mere convenience, clothing sizes establish an unintended norm, an ideal from which deviations seem like flaws. There's nothing like a trip to the dressing room to convince a woman - fat, thin, or in between - that she's a freak.
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