MyÜberLife

Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person.”-Donatella Versace

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”-Mark Twain

“Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.”-Honoré de Balzac

“Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, / But not express’d in fancy; rich, not gaudy; / For the apparel oft proclaims the (wo)man.”-William Shakespeare

“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.”-Oscar Wilde

“Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters.”-Anne Hollander

“I am a very serious person.-Tom Ford

What I do with Hermès menswear is luxury by the old definition […] And that luxury is actually about time – which is what is needed to give scope to the attention to detail in an object – and the appreciation of particular values. It’s the companies that are seen to support clear values that people are paying more and more attention to now.

When I can no longer create anything, I’ll be done for.”

“I was the one who changed, it wasn’t fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.”

“A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion.”

“A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.”

“I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and innateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.”

“Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.”-Anais Nin

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”-Vincent Van Gogh

“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” – Napoleon Hill

“If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.” – Zig Ziglar

“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.”– Mario Andretti

We are all mediators, translators.
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If this (creative) work seems so threatening, this is because it isn’t simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
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= Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

Conscious business.. business that is conscious of inner and outer worlds.. would therefore be business that takes into account body, mind, and spirit in self, culture, and nature. Put differently, conscious business would be mindful of the way that the spectrum of consciousness operates in the Big Three worlds of self and culture and nature.