"Craft takes time, and therefore it is luxury. You cannot do an amazingly well-made garment without taking time—not just the time it takes to make something but also the time it took the maker to come up with the idea. That is all luxury, and that has been lost because we're trying to make things faster and faster, cheaper and cheaper. The consumer tends to lose track of what luxury is."
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
something to think about
Second, third, fourth, how ever many hands this passed through, I found it in this post on Alinea at Home, and she got it from a friend who read it from an interview with fashion designer Isabel Toledo:
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Luxury is naturally paying someone else to set aside the time required to make something exceptional and then have them give it to you. That way you keep the luxury from hitting the rabble.
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