Favorite Fashion / Designer Quotes

[indie]

This is from the #241 i-D
I love how he acts in this interview!

So tell me about the Spring-Summer ready to wear collection.
There is the jacket..Oh-you-cannot-ask-me-to-talk-about-the-Spring-Pret-a-Porter-it-was-such-a-long-time-ago-and-since-then-I-have-done-the-Autumn-Pret-a-Porter-and-now-the-couture-I-cannot-remember-you-can't ask-me-this!
But were there any references?
I'm not intrested in history! That's very childish. That's Gay Pride! You can have vague inspiration but to copy it line for line is terrible!

Who has been the greatest influence in your life?
Myself.

What's your biggest vice?
My problem is lack of vices. I would love to have one, but I am not that gifted. I was born to be boring. I have never smoked. When I was 15 I wanted to try and start smoking, but I was told that smoking brings attention to hands and I have such ugly hands.

(I love the last line )

 

[indie]

Now for the one we all know...

"Did you lose weight because you are in love?"
"No! Because I wanted to wear Dior Homme suits in size 46."

"But you know forget the past. I don't remember my own past. I have survived so many decades."

"A global label like Chanel needs new stuff all the time, like a feast for bulimic person"

 

[style_expert]

thanks for posting those indie

 

[Miss Dalloway]

Karl on Victoria Beckham:
"She is someone i admire.Her self discipline is amazing.Her body is better than someones half her age and who never had children.
She always makes an effort to look good,Victoria is a person who is not afraid to be narcissistic"
Credit:RTL,exclusive!

 

[Ceptuouse]

indie those are hilarious

 

[style_expert]

On Peta:
You eat meat and wear leather, so shut up. I have no time for this foolishness

 

[Royal-Galliano]

Excellent, indie!

"If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body."

"I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was."

"If I lose even half a pound, I have two holes here in the face. I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo."

brainyquote.com

 

[style_expert]

^
I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring, and cannot follow the evolution of time and mood

Everybody has a camera, and it is flash-flash-flash, and I am a puppet, a marionette, Mickey at Disneyland for children to play with

I can cross the street nowhere in the world, I can never go into a shop. Oh, it’s horrible, horrible. In fact, I do like it. It’s very flattering, and very fun

 

[Royal-Galliano]

That Peta one is great!

"No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important."

 

[style_expert]

I like New York these days. At least the way I see it, it is perfect, though I am not down in the streets, so don’t ask me about that. I like how the people don’t call me by Monsieur here. It’s always just the first name—Karl!

I must be in Milan, Paris, and New York. To show in one city is a problem, because you cannot go to every party the same night. You cannot dance on every bar. But you can dance in different cities on different bars. I think that is the modern way, and I am organized for it

My only ambition in life is to wear size 28 jeans

 

[indie]

I love Karl! karma for everyone

 

[style_expert]

on models:
Some of them have pierces in the nipples also—and uh-oh—in other areas too!

 

[TheGlassAngel]

Very odd and sometimes extremely harsh but entertaining nonetheless

 

[Royal-Galliano]

"I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness."

 

[style_expert]

Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a wh*re—and then you get something out of her.

I do not like funerals, and I do not want anyone to come to mine. Do what you want with the ashes. Send them down the garbage chute

 

[indie]

Very odd and sometimes extremely harsh but entertaining nonetheless

"I am a very mean person. I am only intrested in my work. I don't care what happens when I have gone."

I just admire his attidute soooo much.

 

[Luxx]

Karl is the best for hilarious quotes. He just says such insane things, I can't stay mad at him even when what he's saying is ridiculous.

Jeanne Beker: You to me are a big kid, you have that childlike spirit that you tap into

Karl: I'm ******** I know but not in fashion I hope.

Jeanne Beker: Well no its that kid in you, that gives you that spirit of adventure and playfulness.

Karl: Maybe its starting to become a problem. That now I'm not grown up yet but I don't want to you know.

Jeanne Beker: Well I hope you never grow up!

 

[SiennaInLondon]

I think his English is the reason for half of these quotes.

Karl has become a charicature but when I see him on film, he always impresses me. He is intelligent and hard-working and I suppose fashion's equivalent of a polymath. I was surprised when I found out how diverse his abilities are.

Oh and style_expert, your avatar of Maricarla is just divine.

 

[reese06]

On his Spring 2007 RTW:

"the girls are not anorexic, but the clothes are."

 

[peppi]

I love this thread!

"Personality begins where comparison ends."

"And Tango was not my favorite. I love the music but it's not what I prefer to dance. "

"Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this."

"Cha Cha, I love. I was a champion in Cha Cha, world. I even remember very well and I do very well the Bolero. I don't know if you remember that one. "

"Some people would like me to be round again."