Creativity is our North Star. This way of working and this speed, this new opening and innovation, putting everything in discussion must remain at the base of what we do.

Women, for Gucci, as you can imagine, are very important.

An authentic and honest brand narrative is fundamental today; otherwise, you will simply be edited out.

If talented people across teams, functions, and geographies share the same passion and dedication, the results can be remarkable.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

There is no living African writer who has not had to, or will not have to, contend with Achebe's work. We are either resisting him - stylistically, politically, or culturally - or we are writing toward him.

No writing effort is ever wasted. At the very least, it's practice, and a writer never knows when he or she might usefully cannibalize an earlier effort for something new.

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.