Talley gave no power to the ugly sides of fashion but rather to its fantasy, inspiration, and celebration of creativity and artistic expression.
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He saw clothes and luxury not as means to their own end, but instead, as punctuations of beauty in the pursuit of a life well-lived. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the many times Talley attempted to define luxury over the course of his life. It was not a definition based in the idea of flexing obscene wealth, bur rather one that was almost spiritual, worth perusing—and it was actually obtainable, regardless of the status of your bank account.
“To me, luxury is not just about a ride on the Concorde or wearing a sable-lined raincoat. That’s one kind of material luxury. It does not compare, though, to the extraordinary luxury of one’s emotional sustainability through the luxury of love, which comes through the nurturing of other people,” he said in. “Luxury is having a home that is impeccably clean. My grandmother taught me to wax wood floors.
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