Hasta La Ideas

Speaking of fashion, while design houses like Burberry and Missoni have embraced the sorrowful economic climate by preparing to fill their racks with colorless street urchin apparel, the ultra-high end collections from Dior and Armani Prive have decided to thumb their noses at mankind’s fall from monetary stability by pushing ahead with as much luxury as they can get away with at their fashion shows (see: a lot). Although they have reportedly cut back on things like models to take some pressure off their well-designed wallets, there are some great “while Rome burns behind them” quotes buried in this story filed from Paris:

“If you react to the crisis, you can’t produce high fashion,” Italian designer Giorgio Armani told Reuters after the show. “High fashion is like watching a beautiful film, it belongs to a different world.”

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