Quotes About Luxury

So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.

I think the moment that I'm very proud of is building a business without using animals. And, hopefully, changing people's perception of how you can do luxury fashion.

It was Yves Saint Laurent who realised the high-end design houses could make a lot more money if they sold more accessible clothing than the usual couture, when he opened his pret-a-porter store, Rive Gauche, in 1966.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia. But it's not. It's airplanes, hotel rooms, limousines, and armed guards standing outside rooms. I don't get off on that part of it at all.

I have a large collection of town cars because when I was just a snipe in the gutter, growing up in Los Angeles, a town car drove by. I remember running in the house to get my mother so she could see it. It was utterly magnificent.

Having someone cook all your meals is the best vacation ever!

A vacation home is a wonderful 'extra' as you start building wealth. Remember, though, it's still basically a very large, very expensive toy.

My 'Playboy' cover shoot experience was nothing short of a paid luxury vacation.

But for the vacation with my kids in the Bahamas, I'll bring a Michael Kors white gauze tunic, white Dolce & Gabbana jeans, Prada sandals, a ring by Iradj Moini, and enamel bracelets from Hermes.

I like perfume and flowers.

I think diamonds represent luxury, indulgence, and class. So any time you can incorporate a gift that is synonymous with all those attributes, you know the other person will love it. I would challenge someone to find something that better represents Valentine's Day more than diamonds!

I was a valet for celebrity parties.

Valet parking is an essential at any decent club.

Silicon Valley's definition of luxury is a Tesla in every garage.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

The oil under Libya is the champagne of oil, drop for drop the world's most valuable.

Hermes bags are the only bags that auction houses accept. Given that it's already valuable to begin with, making it into an even special one of-a-kind piece by painting on it can only increase its value.

Horses are the brand value of 'Wertheimer Freres.'

Luxury is not about the things that you own. It is about something that reflects your personal values, something that shows the choices that you have made in your life.

WE HEADED TO Sun Valley for the holidays. Arnold and Maria Shriver had a house about the size of the mountain's main ski lodge.

I traveled on Pan Am, in the glory days of first class, catering by Maxim's, champagne and tins of caviar

Traditionally, the sole animal raised on a large scale for food in Japan has been the pig; sheep and goats have never been significant, and cattle were raised for pulling plows and carts but not for food. Japanese-raised beef remains a luxury food of the wealthy few, selling for up to $100 per pound.

From all that experience, Icelanders took away the conclusion: This is not a country in which we can enjoy the luxury of experimenting. We live in a fragile land; we know that our ways will allow at least some of us to survive; don't ask us to change.