The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Quotations
Fashion
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of Green Gables"
Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
-Adolf Loos
It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.
-Elizabeth Hawes
"Why is a Dress?"
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
-Quentin Crisp
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
-William Shakespeare
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
-Henry David Thoreau
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
-Coco Chanel
I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.
-Karl Lagerfeld
