Marcel Wanders Quotes

Men have got more of a discerning eye. They appreciate cut and details, things that aren't so obvious. They like things that have cachet and gentlemanliness.

Style has replaced elegance. Before, I believed that style is something a person embodied. But now it's so easy to buy good style if you have the money.

A custom-tailored suit retains a certain dignity about it.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

A classic man is a distinguished man. He cares about taste and his craft. He's all about the simple model that I live by - eat, drink, be swanky, and have fun getting the job done. He makes sure that he's excellent in all things and that he cares about his neighborhood immensely.

I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

I don't want to be doing fashion shoots and being interviewed about where I shop. Who cares?

I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

My mother always used to say when picking up a product, 'Would you give this to the Duchess of Windsor?' Well, that's lovely. But the Duchess of Windsor is dead.

The Louis Vuitton woman is more about a quality - a quality within some women that needs to come forward, to be noticed and recognised.

I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

The French have got taste.

Polo is about the aspirational lifestyle of the sporty person, on and off the field.

The pocket square, properly contrived, finishes a man's look. With good tailoring and well chosen neckwear, the look connotes power, taste, refinement, manners. The naked pocket connotes the opposite: working class, tasteless, base, crude, ignorant.

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

You can't buy class.

Most of our customers want something glamorous. They want to be looked at, but not for the wrong reasons.

Luxury and style have been key elements in all my projects.

The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.

I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth.

Style is having the courage of one's choices and the courage to say no. It's good taste and culture.