Antoine Arnault Quotes

Design - pure beauty - will be number one at Fisker Coachbuild. We want to bring beautiful, desirable cars to the market, limit the production of each model, and do so with the highest quality.

Real luxury is customization.

I only like luxury fashion. You have to decide where you stand. I like well-made, authentic clothes, well-crafted tailoring. I also like the dream and fantasy of luxury, the exception and rarity of it. I have no interest at all in fast retail. It is ambiguous.

I look for individuality in the artisans I work with for CoutureLab; a loving relationship with the product and care in the construction, along with the story behind it, make couture desirable to consumers looking for something that cannot be mass-produced.

Tod's customers - whatever their nationality - want the very best things in life.

Our business is as good as any high-end designer. We do good because we make good things.

With tailored clothing, you can really see where the money went. How it's constructed, how it fits your body - this becomes very apparent in tailored clothing.

The detail that goes into couture stuff is insane. Everything is handmade - every sequin, every double stitch.

Real luxury is a balance between quality and the affection you feel for an object that cannot be easily replicated.

Once you start compromising, once you start trying to keep cost lower, this is not luxury. Luxury is wanting the best and using the best materials with which to do that.

Most of my instruments are handmade.

To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun, going through the process that everybody who has bought one has gone through for 100 years. You order it, you make a significant down payment, and then you wait three or four years for the gun to be custom-made for you.

You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes.

For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.

Just because you're a luxury brand doesn't mean you have to have an attitude.

Luxury is a state of mind.

I think it's an old fashioned notion that fashion needs to be exclusive to be fashionable.

At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Samsung's Luxia TV, an Eames lounge chair or anything by Loro Piana.

It's hard not to love everything Prada does.

I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory and say, 'I need 10,000 more of whatever.' But I can't - because then it's not art, it's something else.

I love driving at Monaco but the rest of it, well, I can absolutely take it or leave it. It's extremely pretentious and really not my cup of tea.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

In luxury, ubiquity will kill you - it means you're not really luxury anymore.

Traditionally, those that work in fashion have always had the point of view that items made by hand have their own aura and are something special.

I love the opportunity to get properly dressed up. I've worn three Lanvin dresses, and they've all been a dream. They're so well made, with the most beautiful craftsmanship. I don't tend to go with things that are ornate - just beautifully made pieces and some classic jewelry. Let the work speak for itself. I love that.