Today couture has to be expensive, but it shouldn’t look expensive.
Interpretation
Couture should be valuable yet effortlessly elegant.
Karl Lagerfeld's quote emphasizes that high fashion, or couture, can be expensive in terms of craftsmanship and materials, but it should convey a sense of luxury that feels not ostentatious or overly showy. The essence lies in achieving elegance that appears natural rather than forced, suggesting that true style doesn't need to scream its worth.
In practice
A fashion designer's presentation about modern couture designs.
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.
All it takes are a few simple outfits. And there's one secret - The Simpler The Better
Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.
The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.
I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.
The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.
They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me
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