Quotes About Luxury

Her midriff bare, like the denizen...of some pampering seraglio.

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

wallpaper, gleaming floors, and a coin

Red-heeled shoes and silk stockings clocked in black. Gray satin breeches with silver knee buckles. Snowy linen, with Brussels lace six inches deep at cuff and jabot. The coat, a masterpiece in heavy gray with blue satin cuffs and crested silver buttons, hung behind the door, awaiting its turn.

Hollywood is a whole other level of crazy. I've never met so many assistants who have assistants. It's a stratified society on its own.

When I get dressed, I do wear Armani.

I drive an Escalade.

People feel very emotional about cars, and I don't want them to feel bad about driving a fast car.

The only thing that doesn't drop in a down market is entertainment money.

Dubai's a pretty powerful place.

You can do pretty much anything you want in Dubai. In terms of getting around, everywhere's within half an hour in the car.

I've been a huge Cartier fan from my very early days.

Yes, I love good clothes, good shoes, but I earned it.

Eighty dollars for a T-shirt - that's how you know the brand is good.

I like clothes that are elegant and comfortable.

When I was making the most money at the top of my game, driving Bentleys and all that, I felt so existentially empty.

A lot of things we don't have to have, but they're enjoyable.

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

It has seven hundred rooms and suites, three hundred of which are apartments owned by the cream of New York-wealthy widows and business tycoons

It's the richest hotel in town. And they all keep their jewels in the big vault room behind the cashier's desk.

a blue dyed Balenciaga mink and almost exactly $2,500,000 worth of diamonds—including a thirty-odd carat diamond in each ear and a 34.8 carat blue diamond ring (putting it just below the famed Hope diamond, which is 44.5 carats, and the 35.5-carat Wittebacher, which is on sale for $650,000. Contact J. Komkommer in Antwerp). …Childless, she spends 5 or 6 months a year in the U.S. (she has a 7½ room apartment in Manhattan's Hotel Pierre)…

He'd be much, much more in love with the little one if he could give her nice clothes and diamonds and soft furs… that's just the way it is: the more brilliant and impressive a role you can play for someone, the more you love them.

A taste of luxury is part of the education of any intelligent human being. It teaches him how unnecessary it is.