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.
BERNARD ARNAULTAffordable luxury – these are two words that don’t go together.
More Bernard Arnault Quotes
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From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.
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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.
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Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.
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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.
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A good product can last forever.
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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.
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Affordable luxury – these are two words that don’t go together.
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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.
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I take time to get close to, and I don’t immediately throw my arms round someone.
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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.
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I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.
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I take time to get close to, and I don’t immediately throw my arms round someone.
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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.
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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.
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Once 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.
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