BeBe Zahara Benet

VANITY' is a celebration of beauty, self-identity, and self-respect. We want people to leave the show feeling okay to accept themselves - not to hold back and be ashamed of the extravagances they like to indulge in. We should be able to celebrate these things because they are part of living and we all strive for them.

Cameroonian Celebrity

Christian Louboutin

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.

French Designer

John C. Calhoun

Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where there is more passion than reason; and hence, in the nature of things, movements originating in it run down in a short time by their folly and extravagance.

American Statesman

Sabine Baring-Gould

A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.

English Clergyman

Paul Washer

The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.

American Clergyman

Rachel Nichols

I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

American Actress

Imelda Marcos

They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.

Celebrity

Virginia Woolf

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

British Author

Frank Gehry

My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.

American Architect

Hong Chau

I like to be very simple in my lifestyle. My only extravagance is... I buy lots of toys and meats for my dog.

Focus on the idea that this extravagance isn't essential, but chosen for personal pleasure or status.

Unnecessary Spending

The term often carries a negative judgment, suggesting imprudent or excessive spending habits.

Potential Disapproval

Extravagance can allude to visually striking displays of wealth, not just the cost.

Visual Richness

Something regarded as an extravagance may be a normal expense for someone else.

Perceived Luxury

What's seen as extravagance can change with time and cultural shifts.

Evolving Standards

People might defend extravagances by citing personal value or special occasions.

Personal Justification

This definition highlights irrationality or lack of self-control in the extravagance.

Excess Beyond Reason

Extravagance can describe not only physical excesses but also inflated language or behavior.

Context of Exaggeration

Often, using 'extravagance' suggests criticism for going too far or being excessive.

Negative Implications

 But I came from a modest immigrant family where my idea of luxury was having a pork tongue and jelly sandwich in my school lunchbox, so the thought of spending my whole life sitting around in armchairs just thinking Well, that struck me as the height of extravagance and frivolity.

How to make hard choices...

 extravagance here in the high mountains it is possible to conclude that what you don't accomplish holds equal importance with what you do here the absence of life and the void created by nature forces you to examine a spiritual