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.
BERNARD ARNAULTI take time to get close to, and I don’t immediately throw my arms round someone.
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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If you control your distribution, you control your image.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.
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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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In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.
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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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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.
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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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