Philippe Starck Doesn't Like Design Anymore?

Is Philippe Starck okay? We ask because, going into the weekend, news started circulating about an interview he’d had with the German paper, Die Zelt, wherein he’d described everything he’d designed in his storied career was “unnecessary” and that he planned on giving up on his profession here in the next couple of years. But apparently it’s not even just him thinking that he’s over and done with, it’s the industry in general: