”I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It’s the mark of civilisation,”
He says, after a pause. “We use fashion for status and to beautify and there’s nothing wrong with that, but when it becomes completely unbalanced, then you’re living a decadent life. And when that happens on a global scale, you’re living in a decadent world. This mass obsession with owning things… I’m questioning those values.” 
David LaChapelle from an interview with Elizabeth Day, The Observer

 ”I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It’s the mark of civilisation,”

He says, after a pause. “We use fashion for status and to beautify and there’s nothing wrong with that, but when it becomes completely unbalanced, then you’re living a decadent life. And when that happens on a global scale, you’re living in a decadent world. This mass obsession with owning things… I’m questioning those values.” 

David LaChapelle from an interview with Elizabeth Day, The Observer