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I don't give interviews on Chanel because it is not useful for the Chanel business.
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I spoke to the Wine Spectator because that's PR, that's how you sell wine. I will gladly speak to you about the wine and the horses.
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We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.
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Today, not only have I lost a friend, but we have all lost an extraordinary creative mind to whom I gave carte blanche in the early 1980s to reinvent the brand.