Burke also referenced Southern California’s sunny sensibilities and sense of optimism as appealing to him and Louis Vuitton. “There’s a bit of California that stays with me wherever I go,” he said, noting it’s a mind-set that follows him as he travels the world for work. The one thing I must say that is so invigorating when I come here compared to Paris is in Paris everybody sees the world as a glass being half empty. It’s the same glass — Paris is not any better or worse than California. But the point of view is the opposite, and there’s a certain positivity — but not a naive positivity — that we will work on things.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 04, 2019 10:52 UTC