Antoine Arnault Quotes

The boom for luxury goods is unending. There are people who never have to worry about whether they can afford something they like. In one part of the world or another there will always be someone with money to spend on luxury.

When you're young, luxury often means being able to buy something you really want - a high end bag or a specific car.

So, you're seeing the Rolls-Royces and the Bentley's still selling for big prices. You're seeing jewelry still selling, art works at auction. There was a diamond that sold for I think 38 million, 48 million, something like that just a week ago. So prices are back up to their highs, getting stronger and more and more people seem to have more and more money to spend.

I don't own anything designer.

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.

It's just as easy to buy a $12,000 watch in East Hampton as it is to pick up a carton of milk, and new homeowners are so impatient that they landscape their front lawns with 'mature gardens' of full-grown trees.

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

Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.

Because of the demand for luxury articles, they become customary, and thus come to be necessities

It's not unusual for a luxury company to be born from a single product and then diversify. Louis Vuitton began with luggage, and Gucci with leather goods.

Luxury cannot afford to intimidate.

There is a lot of growth taking place in capturing aspirational consumers and converting them to luxury as they evolve.

The luxury market and its consumer are very flexible and reactive.

I have a Mercedes. I wear a Rolex watch. I have no problem with the selling of things.

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

I can't see myself ever spending hundreds of thousands on anything that doesn't come with a toilet.

Real fashion is something you don't need - it's something you want.

During the 1990s, luxury became something exclusive and elitist. I think fashion got lost. It forgot about craft and culture.

I hear luxury brand names, I cringe.

People like their handbag more than their sofa, and I hate it.

India now has serious fashion consumers who do not think twice before splurging on an expensive luxury product.

I'm in the Apple store on Regent Street far too much; I'm obsessed by whatever the latest Apple gadget is. For clothes, I love to shop in Liam Gallagher's shop Pretty Green on Carnaby Street, or Cult Clothing in Crouch End, for Original Penguin and G-Star.

Silicon Valley's definition of luxury is a Tesla in every garage.

An object should elicit desire, and often it happens not because people need it but because they love it.

It's sad, the enslavement of the black underclass to designer labels - we're an age that cares more about Versace than Vermeer.