Luxury is a state of mind.
Marc Jacobs Beauty is really exciting for me; when I was at school, I would always struggle to find make-up that suited my skin tone, and I certainly wouldn’t find anything from a luxury brand. I’m glad that girls don’t have that problem anymore.
I think I’d like to stay anchoring because, number one, I’m learning a lot, and I love it when I’m learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.
It’s a real luxury to have a studio all to myself, somewhere to start mood boards for the next collection.
The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.
I don’t need security detail; I don’t need anything special. I just walk around, and I can do that, and that’s a real luxury when you’re in my industry.
It’s a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
We don’t have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it’s important to be with our family and friends.
In Ivory Coast it’s very hard to have normal shoes, so just imagine football boots – they were considered a true luxury.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
I don’t have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can’t be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too.
People from my father’s generation didn’t have the luxury to be unhappy in their job.
I’m in the position where I don’t have to make commercial music to feed myself, so I have the luxury of being more experimental, if that’s what I choose to do. I guess I’ve earned the right by being in the business for a while and paying the dues and taking the lumps.
A healthy ocean is not a luxury item. It is a necessity for survival. And taking care of the ocean means taking care of ourselves.
To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place – and have space for more.
Like Disneyland, luxury retailers have long had to figure out how to overcome customers’ natural inertia. Unlike less pricey stores, they tend not to attract idle browsers who make impulse purchases.
‘Playboy’ made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings – not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.
It’s a luxury being able to work every day in the streets of Manhattan. It doesn’t get much cooler than that. When you move to New York, that’s exactly what you dream of. And I’m doing it.
Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant example of womanly immorality in the present.
‘Success’ is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury.
Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.
I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing – albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers’ sanity – and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.
I generally get challenged; I haven’t been typecast, which is really, really, nice. It’s not something that every actor gets, really. It’s luxury. Most actors are capable of it, but they aren’t afforded the opportunity to express their variety.
Staying in luxury hotels still gives me a kick, especially Oulton Hall in Yorkshire. I’d stay in a hotel for the breakfast and room service.
Lofts are great. But with a home, there is a lot to be said for delineated space. To have the luxury of a little separate work space is huge – and to have the dream-sequence master bath.
Both films and TV have their compunctions, their positives and negatives. For example, I explored a character at great length in ‘Maryada’… which can be the ultimate high for an actor, but I won’t get this luxury as a film person.
I used to tour the theatres and clubs with an 18-foot luxury caravan strapped to the back of my Roller – it was a damn site more comfortable than most hotels.
BOB is a luxury brand. The prices are lower than designer prices but higher than high street. We sit on the cusp of paying proper money for excellent quality without having to charge thousands for a dress.
The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.
My obsession is TV and movies, so I order an obscene amount of DVDs. And I have an obsession with handbags. So once a year, I treat myself to a luxury handbag.
Branding says a lot about luxury and about exclusion and about the choices that manufacturers make, but I think that what society does with it after it’s produced is something else. And the African-American community has always been expert at taking things and repurposing them toward their own ends.
I didn’t have much. I grew up with a loving, supportive family, with a roof over my head, but there was no luxury.
We have a huge family history with Singapore because we have the duty-free shops in the airports. It’s a very industrious city. It’s beautiful, and Singaporeans have this wonderful desire for, and love of, luxury goods. You can see how well thought out and planned the city is with the best boutiques.
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.
I want to give haute couture a kind of wink, a sense of humour – to introduce the whole sense of freedom one sees in the street into high fashion; to give couture the same provocative and arrogant look as punk – but, of course, with luxury and dignity and style.
I once had money to burn. I’d fly to Barbados for the weekend. I lived in a twenty-two-room mansion and had my pick of four luxury cars.
As a writer, you can’t allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
I try to ensure my daughters are not spoilt. They are very aware of how lucky they are and appreciate it. We have had some lean years, so they know it’s not all about luxury, travel, and hotels. They are grounded, and I’m grateful for that.
On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
I don’t quite have the luxury of cherry-picking – I have to see what comes my way. But I have always been picky.
I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.
Luxury cannot afford to intimidate.
Becoming a dad has been a big change for me – I didn’t have any responsibilities before. I obviously practised every day, but there was that luxury of things like watching movies when I wanted or waking up whenever I wanted.
To me, ‘Underground Luxury’ is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn’t see on the first album.
One day mom sat down and says, ‘I’m moving my children to Queens. There was this quiet in the room and then everyone burst out laughing. Moving to Queens for us was like moving to Mars. It was like breaking out of poverty, the ultimate in luxury.
I think there is something about luxury – it’s not something people need, but it’s what they want. It really pulls at their heart.
The main thing we thought was lacking in the luxury market were basic pieces that could break up an outfit so you didn’t feel like you were totally dressed in one designer. You could add some ease and comfort, tone it down.
Our success as a global brand has been directly related to how we select locations where we are confident our particular clients desire to be. Los Cabos, Mexico is the ideal Engel & Volkers market, growing in popularity among world luxury travelers seeking exceptional properties for second home opportunities.
The biggest luxury is a job in which I get to live in New York, travel the world, and work with so many incredible people.
I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills – I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships.
I shopped at Harrods and Louis Vuitton, as they were top on my priority list. And that’s when a friendly shopkeeper told me that I could get mugged as my luxury bags were screaming for attention. And he gave me garbage bags to cover them. So here I was walking around in London with garbage bags in my hand.
I came from a communist country where there are no luxury cars.
During the 1990s, luxury became something exclusive and elitist. I think fashion got lost. It forgot about craft and culture.
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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