Occupation: Businessman Birth: March 5, 1949
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 sta….
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..
If you control your distribution, you control your image..
A good product can last forever..
I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide..
I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone..
I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations..
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 fo….
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 b….
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….
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 ar….
From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good..
China has really succeeded because of its stability. So my feeling is, how they are going to maintain this fantastic stability in a very fast changi….
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 organizatio….
Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur..
When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this cre….
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 increas….
Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins..
Affordable luxury - these are two words that don't go together..
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 f….
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'….