As everyone knows, I love Karl Lagerfeld. A recent issue of WWD had some great quotes from his introduction at Harold Koda at the Fashion Group International's Night of Stars. I have posted some of the best below...

• "There is a strange and invisible borderline when fashion is not only fashion, but becomes the most evident and most easily visible expression of an area."


• "Fashion as history is beyond fashion, and it is not only limited to clothes."


• "The face of fashion is now in the hands of a small group of big companies and they often own several important and influential fashion brands. They also help to make is possible for museums to stage important shows."


• "Fashion is today also about big shows like Hollywood productions. In the past, designers made fashion history by dressing people who had a real life in those clothes. We should learn a lot from that. Red carpet (another invention of our times) helps to distort fashion by giving it a fake and too glamorous face."


• "A new fashion can appear having the same origins in inspiration and admiration in the past of fashion. The danger is for us designers to be too exposed to the seduction of the past."


• "It is difficult to work our your own vision of fashion without being haunted by the beauty of the work of the people before us -even if they were also not immune to all kinds of influences and inspirations to achieve a strong vision and unique style."