Antoine Arnault Quotes

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.

Build to a standard, not a price.

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

When you come across something, and its quality is just outrageous, that's probably something of value. It's been that way for hundreds and hundreds of years - the really, really expensive stuff is also really, really high quality.

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.

The idea behind our shoes is simple: they are as light as possible, very soft and made from the finest leather we can buy. We try to make a combination of something that looks fantastic and is at the same time fantastically comfortable. This is the type of luxury people want to buy now, things that they can use every day.

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

I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing.

Maybe it's my age that makes me very conscious of loose threads, but I don't think that's an earmark of a fine product. And whenever I have a deep-seated feeling like that, I convey it to the person who made it. Sometimes they curse me, and sometimes they thank me.

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.

My philosophy has always been that I can sell chinos and T-shirts and $5,000 gowns - they just have to be the best of what they are.

It turns out that people - in every country in the world, there's a segment of buyer that wants the best product and the best experience. And that's what we're about providing.

Loro Piana is all about seeking quality materials.

People are brainwashed into believing that Italy is the seat of luxury manufacturing. If it's made in Italy, it must be good. That's just hype. Quality is where you bring it.

In the end, we don't believe in launching any type of product if it isn't perfect in our eyes.

The Australians have a scientific approach and a very strong professionalism, a passion to do the best. Theirs is the best wool. And Loro Piana wants the best.

You look for the way something is built. You see a Prada bag and you look at the stitching at the back. If it's a fake one, then they make it really cheap. If it's a real Prada bag and I will look at it, I will count every single stitch and make sure they are exact distance apart.

The price point and the quality are very rare. I don't want people thinking, "I got the look for less." I want them thinking, "I got the look!"

Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.

With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.

If America wants to make "made in America" a symbol of excellence and worth. They have to make everything of high quality, otherwise the best.

We decided when we were building Big Machine that we wanted to be a Harley or a Ferrari.

Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermès factory. Sh*t is real.

When you're out of quality, you're out of business.