“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.”

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. .

Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.

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.

I take time to get close to, and I don’t immediately throw my arms round someone.

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.

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

I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.

I 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ngila Dixon is such an incredible costume designer. She’s such a cool, stylish woman. She has such an understanding of character.

I don’t like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.