Contemporary Aesthetics Quotes

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.

What I find most interesting in fashion is that it has to reflect our time. You have to witness your own moment.

We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.

Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.

At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.

They don't have the edge that I need. I'm not interested in reliving 1988.

Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence. Fashion is always retro, but always on the basis of the abolition of the passé (the past): the spectral death and resurrection of forms. Its proper actuality (its 'up-to-dateness', its 'relevance') is not a reference to the present, but an immediate and total recycling.

I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces, I find them strong and contemporary.

It is an honor for me to accept the position of men's artistic director for Louis Vuitton. I find the heritage and creative integrity of the house are key inspirations and will look to reference them both while drawing parallels to modern times.

With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.