“I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.”

A good product can last forever.

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.

I think in business, you have to learn to be patient. Maybe I’m not very patient myself. But I think that I’ve learned the most is be able to wait for something and get it when it’s the right time.

What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell to China, when usually it’s the opposite.

Louis Vuitton, the world’s biggest luxury brand in terms of sales, is planning to dampen its expansion worldwide and focus on high-end products to preserve its exclusive image.

Working in the context of ultra-famous brands like Dior and Vuitton, creative spirits are always going to feel reined in. It’s important that they are free to develop ideas. And rather than detracting from the principal job, it reinforces it. I think of that money as venture capital. It’s not a big investment.

Affordable luxury – these are two words that don’t go together.

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.

If you deeply appreciate and love what creative people do and how they think, which is usually in unpredictable and irrational ways, then you can start to understand them. And finally, you can see inside their minds and DNA.

When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.

I’ve always been pleased with the investments I’ve made with my friend Albert Frere and I regret not having followed him more, because I would have been a lot richer.

When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.

If you control your distribution, you control your image.

In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.

I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.

If you haven’t read Alan Fletcher’s The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer

I love clothes so much, I always have. It’s awesome to have designers invite me to their shows and openings and send me samples of their work.

Fashion designers are dictators of taste.

A wise friend once told me, ‘Don’t wear what fashion designers tell you to wear. Wear what they wear.’

A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn’t learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.

When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don’t get carried away-it’s only dresses.

What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.