Shanghai Tang’s chief executive shares his wisdom on the Financial Times, delivering some interesting messages to the young entrepreneurs or school students. We read that Richemont put him in charge of one of its smaller investment, the Hong Kong-based Shanghai Tang.

He progressively became the “mandarin de luxe” by transforming his key ideas into action, from the original concept of Shanghai tailoring to the concept of a more open lifestyle brand. His few advises to the coming graduates of business schools are to learn “the real experience of human relationships” or to “how to handle different issues”, things that are rarely taught in school, and to accept the “conflict between designers and salespeople, who sometimes accuse the designers of being too selfish and not commercial enough”.

Read more: “Le mandarin de luxe: Shanghai Tang’s chief executive shares his wisdom” at the Financial Times’ website.