Marcel Wanders Quotes

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

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

The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

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

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

My friends are very rich. Elizabeth Taylor sends flowers the size of the bathtub. I'm not kidding.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

I don't do glamorous things.

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.

We partied with the royal rich people, and we felt like rock stars. We drank all the whiskey in the place.

To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

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

Luxury is anything you don't need, right? I mean, you need food, water, clothing, shelter... but good wine, good food, beautiful interiors, nice clothes; those aren't necessities, they are luxuries - it's all luxury.

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

I saw such personal wealth there that were I to describe it, the people of Persia would never believe it. I could discover no end or limit to their wealth, and I never saw such ease and comfort anywhere

Opulence is a crime

The love of Luxury grows by what it feeds upon.

If you look at us as a company, what's the one thing that's consistent? It has to be the biggest, the best, the greatest. My father, over the years, has bought some of the best mansions of the world. It's just something he loves.

It's so nice to slip into the lap of luxury.

Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Decadence is wonderful.

I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.