Verbatim: Sep. 16, 2007
'People are interested in glitz. Fashion's over. There are bags and shoes that are more and more ugly. That's all.' —Hubert de Givenchy
' The number of millionaires in their 30s is frightening, but very often they don't even have good table manners. It's a shame.' —Valentino
' We are running a business that's not for everyone, and I'm not trying to be an a———, but some people can't afford it, and maybe there is a sort of resentment about that.' —Tom Ford
'They're not going to put a $2 million piece of jewelry on a Zara dress.' —Sidney Toledano, president of Christian Dior
' We have one client in San Francisco who wanted to buy a dress just so she could look at it in her closet.' —Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte
'For me, luxury is intelligence and quality. I don't see a lot of intelligence and quality in luxury when it's used to make fast, big money.' —Philippe Starck
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