If you control your distribution, you control your image.

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.

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

It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

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

I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.