It's better than expected, above all in fashion and leather goods and wines and spirits. The tone of comments on 2006 is more positive than usual.

Sales growth should compare less favorably with peers. The brand has now reached a mature stage of development.

The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a way of creating options, open-ended sort of personal itineraries within a building. And I see that as akin to cinematography or choreography, where episodic movement, episodic moments, occur in dance and film.

fashion has a right to exist, because it permits people to define themselves over and over again.

Fashion fades...style is eternal"
Yves St Laurent

He had the backbone to fashion his own agenda.