Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.
BERNARD ARNAULTLuxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.
BERNARD ARNAULTI like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.
BERNARD ARNAULTChina 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. .
BERNARD ARNAULTLouis 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.
BERNARD ARNAULTWhen 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.
BERNARD ARNAULTOnce we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It’s a symbol.
BERNARD ARNAULTIf 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.
BERNARD ARNAULTI think this is a challenge we face, how the global region will evolve in stability with such a fast growth. If they succeed to do that, no doubt, in the next generation it will be the major area of the world, economically.
BERNARD ARNAULTAnd rather than detracting from the principal job, it reinforces it. I think of that money as venture capital. It’s not a big investment.
BERNARD ARNAULTWhat 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.
BERNARD ARNAULTIf 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.
BERNARD ARNAULTIt 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.
BERNARD ARNAULTI like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.
BERNARD ARNAULTI’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.
BERNARD ARNAULTIf you control your distribution, you control your image.
BERNARD ARNAULTI’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.
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