Nicola Formichetti Quotes

Luxury hasn't been democratised; it's been globalised.

Language does not make one an elite.

The elitist way of looking on the runway, frankly, seems old fashioned.

During the 1990s, luxury became something exclusive and elitist. I think fashion got lost. It forgot about craft and culture.

Fashion week is always going to be necessary, but it's not going to be for everybody.

I love high fashion. I want to do it, but in order to be able to make a change, you have to be able to talk to the masses, not the 1 percent.

Designer labels, throughout the history of fashion, have maintained an air of exclusivity around themselves. Call it hype, criticize it if you will. But fashion has used this 'exclusive' tag to make itself coveted.

These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers.

You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.

I try to not be or associate with elitists.

I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.

In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.

I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them.

The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.

Posh people blow my mind. Apart from empathy, they're good at everything - true survivalists.

You see, in the fashion industry, everybody either knows each other or is linked to one another. If you're not part of their inner circle, things can be hard.

Rich clubs, where money doesn't matter... such clubs don't interest me.

Class and the snobbery it provokes still matter far too much in Britain, but we are a far more mobile society than we used to be.

I have a class prejudice - against the upper class, which is foolish.

The people's love of pumpkin spice and snobbish elites' derision of it suggest a subtle political reality: the pumpkin spice latte is America's most conservative drink.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it.

The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.