What was Christian Diors total revenue in 2007?
Last year, our sales amounted to 787 million euro (about 125.9 billion yen), up 12 percent from the previous year. We witnessed growth in Europe and Asia. In China, our sales rose sharply, thanks to brisk performances in Hong Kong. In Russia, we opened a store of our own in St. Petersburg. However, in Japan last year, there was no big increase as in the case of the preceding years due to the weakness of the Japanese yen against the euro. In the fashion industry of late, companies like yours have tended to produce goods by reflecting the findings of client trend surveys rather than designers’ ideas. What role do designers now play at Christian Dior in such circumstances? Galliano is a person of foresight–he is a genius who can come up with creations by looking far ahead. He likes to entertain us with surprises and dreams. Artists have talents unique to them and different from ours. For his part, Galliano is not only an artist but a communicator–he listens to us as to demands and reque
