Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
Interpretation
This quote encourages mindful purchasing based on passion and excitement rather than mere consumption.
Karl Lagerfeld emphasizes the importance of intentionality in our buying habits. He suggests that we should acquire items that genuinely excite us and resonate with what we already possess, rather than purchasing for the sake of shopping. This perspective encourages a thoughtful approach to consumption, focusing on personal fulfillment and joy instead of mindless expenditure.
In practice
During a discussion on sustainable fashion, you might reference this quote to highlight mindful purchasing habits.
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.
My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?
My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.
Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From it's own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, not falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous,beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.
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