I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
Interpretation
Karl Lagerfeld expresses a desire for individual success in the global fashion industry.
This quote highlights Karl Lagerfeld's ambition to create a powerful personal brand in the fashion world, emphasizing the idea that one person can lead and innovate on a large scale. It reflects a dream of individualism and the impact one can have in an industry that is often thought of as collective and conformist.
In practice
During a speech at a fashion conference, one might use this quote to inspire budding designers to believe in their own unique vision.
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.
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.
The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear.
Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldnβt know what else to be.
Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.
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