a quote

Here is a delightful quote by the philosopher and sociologist Gilles Lipovetsky, Fashion and Accessories (ArtEZ Press 2009) on the relevance of luxury.


"There is a new desire for timelessness, for long-lasting, enduring goods that contrast with the temporary and disposable - perhaps to compensate or counterbalance a consumer society in the throes of constant renewal and the accelerated obsolescence of goods. Today's taste for roots and 'eternity' arises from the ever-growing spiral of transitory. A gnawing 'spiritual' need, albeit an ambiguous one, always underlies our relationship with luxury -  a need to get away from the flimsiness of the ephemeral and to touch terra firma, to find a place in which the present becomes charged with a system of reference."

images: Chanel spring 2011 campaign (fashiongonerogue.com)