If you're not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.
Interpretation
Engaging with fashion requires constant conversation and commitment; if you're not prepared for that, consider another profession.
Karl Lagerfeld's quote emphasizes the intrinsic nature of fashion as an ever-evolving dialogue that demands continuous engagement and passion. To succeed in the fashion industry, one must be ready to not only follow trends but also contribute to the conversation surrounding them, implying that a lack of enthusiasm may suggest a need to pursue a different career path entirely.
In practice
Use this quote when discussing the dedication required in the fashion industry during a seminar.
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.
We usually evaluate creative process in terms of how much feeling or thinking was behind the work or how well the work was done. Isn't there any other way of appreciating the process? What if the standard of excellence was how fully present the artist was during the process?
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
Perhaps when I have 10 films behind me, I will have something worth saying.
The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.
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