Kimora Lee Simmons Quotes

Let them eat cake.

There's an unhealthy obsession in America with royalty and the class system.

Bling is good.

I photograph wealth.

He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants to be treated like a member of the Royal Family.

I always have the best of everything.

I don't have a Rolls. I don't have a jet. That's not me.

The more money the louder it talks.

Essentially, Louis XIV created exclusivity. If we look at how we live our lives today, many of us are members of clubs or gyms. We search out exclusivity. He created the world of fashion at Versailles.

The super-rich watch each other like envious owls, to see who's got a slightly better loafer, a pullover made from some even more absurdly endangered fur. They will go to any lengths to find the best tailors.

First, one scrambles for wealth. Then, one luxuriates in mocking the effeteness that comes with it.

I still have my feet on the ground; it's just that I wear expensive shoes.

... the monotonous beauty of wealth.

I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat cake".

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

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 like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Divas need their furs!

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

I'm glad I was never an heiress.

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell you this but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream.