Peter Lindbergh Quotes

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

Bling is good.

Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.

People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.

I try to wear $1 million a day. At least.

Luxury is a difficult object to describe - it's been the object of hundreds of years of discussion. We definitely don't need it, but it's good for the soul.

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

People say I'm a gold digger, but do you see me wearing gold? No. I'm wearing diamonds.

People don't want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear!

For me, life is not about gold taps and marble all over the place.

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

Divas need their furs!

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

I always judge a man by his shoes and his watch.

Sometimes America gets tempted by the glitz and glamour.

Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.

I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.

There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you know, I'm not a yacht person, and I've got pretty much the nicest plane I'd want to have.

I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.

The clothes were a huge part of what made 'Dynasty' fun.

Opulence is a crime

We judge of entire nations by the productions of a few mechanical arts, and think we are talking of men, while we are boasting of their estates, their dress, and their palaces. The sense in which we apply the terms, great, and noble, high rank, and high life, show, that we have, on such occasions, transferred the idea of perfection from the character to the equipage; and that excellence itself is, in our esteem, a mere pageant, adorned at a great expense, by the labors of many workmen.

Wealth has never been a sufficient source of honour in itself. It must be advertised, and the normal medium is obtrusively expensive.

You often see lifestyle over substance in L.A. Some rock stars dress up like they're going to play a gig when they're just going to the 7-Eleven store on a Tuesday night.