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“Everything Involved in Travelling is Bad”

Reading the Independent travel supplement over the weekend, I couldn’t help but notice their interview with French designer Philippe Starck. I supposed he’s entitled to his opinions, but he doesn’t half come across as a bit of a twat. Apart from telling a travel magazine that “the secret to travelling is to never read magazines – they wash your brain and depress you”, “everything involved in travelling is bad”, and “only stupid people travel”, he gloats about his “16 houses around the world” (which he visits in his “own plane”, carrying the luggage he “designed for Samsonite, because they are very good – they’re very light and soft”), and contradicts himself spectacularly:

Answering the question “To where would you never return?”, he says that he “will never go to a country where there is racism, fascism or where there is the Mafia.” So presumably he won’t be travelling to his house in Italy, or in fact staying in France at all any more, then. Even worse, two questions after his comments about racism, he’s asked where he would emigrate, only to answer that “emigrating is the worst mistake that people can make, unless it is completely necessary. I think people should always live where they are born and marry somebody of their own culture.” Er…?

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  1. This maybe explains why the urinals he designed for ‘Felix’ in Hong Kong’s Peninsula Hotel allow the illusion of pissing over Kowloon – what better way to register disdain for a foreign place than urinate over it from a great height…does anyone know what the security’s like on the London Eye?

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