Fashion Titans Remember Jacques Chirac
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PARIS — Fashion industry titans remembered Jacques Chirac, a former president of France, who died Thursday at the age of 86.
“It is with infinite sadness that I learn of the death of Jacques Chirac,” Kering’s founder François Pinault said in a statement. “I pay tribute to he who was a true friend to me. His courage, his modesty, his sincere attachment to the Republic and his keen sense of equal dignity of civilizations commanded admiration. He incarnated the French spirit at its best, faithfulness to roots and aspirations of universality. I bow before his memory and express my deepest sympathy to all those who loved him.”
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Bernard Arnault, chairman and chief executive officer of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, said: “I regularly mixed with President Jacques Chirac over an extended period of time, and he extensively and passionately worked for Paris and for France, whose great prestige he embodied abroad. He was, beyond his role as head of state, a man of culture, of interaction, of generosity and of peace. I wish to express to his wife all of my sadness and the sincere condolences of the group LVMH, for which she has served as a director. I share the pain of his daughter and all of his family.”
An advocate of European unity, Chirac served two terms as the President of France, from 1995 to 2007. The politician also was a mayor of Paris for 18 years, beginning in 1977.
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