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Delphine Arnault
Born	Delphine Caroline Marie Arnault (1975-04-04) 4 April 1975 (age 49) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Spouse	Alessandro Vallarino Gancia (m. 2005; div. 2010)
Partner	Xavier Niel (2010–present)^[1]
Children	4
Father	Bernard Arnault
Relatives	Antoine Arnault (brother)

Delphine Caroline Marie Arnault (French: [dɛlfin aʁno]; born 4 April 1975) is a French businesswoman. She is a director and executive vice president at Louis Vuitton, as well as the chairwoman and chief executive officer of Christian Dior Couture. She is the daughter of Bernard Arnault and sister of Antoine Arnault.^[2]

Early life

Arnault is the elder child of Bernard Arnault from his first wife, Anne Dewavrin. She has a younger brother, Antoine Arnault, as well as three half-brothers from her father's second marriage.

Between the ages of seven and ten, she and her family lived in New Rochelle, New York, where she and her brother attended a French-American school.^[3]^[4] She later earned degrees from the London School of Economics and EDHEC Business School (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales du Nord).^[5]^[6]

In 1994, she was presented as a debutante at Le Bal des débutantes in Paris.^[7]

Career

Arnault began her career working at McKinsey & Company for two years.^[3] She joined LVMH in 2000,^[8] initially working with Dior creative director John Galliano's own label.^[4]^[9]

Since 2003, Arnault has been a member of the management board of the LVMH group, the first woman and youngest person to occupy that post.^[10] She is also a member of the board of directors for Moët Hennessy and M6, as well as a managing partner of a wealth management company.

In 2008, Arnault was named deputy chief of the designer Christian Dior Couture, which she quit in 2013 to join Louis Vuitton as a director and executive vice president.^[11]^[12]

In May 2014, Arnault started the LVMH Prize, an international competition for young fashion designers.^[13]^[14] The objective of the LVMH group is to discover the talents and creativity of new designers – "It is necessary to recognize the talent and creativity, as well as the ways in which we can best help the growth of their business", she confirmed.^[15]

In January 2023, Arnault was appointed as CEO of Christian Dior Couture, effective in February.^[16]^[17] She was ranked 45th on Fortune's list of Most Powerful Women in 2023.^[18]

Other directorships

Gagosian Gallery, member of the board of directors (since 2021)^[19]
20th Century Fox, member of the board of directors (since 2013)^[20]^[21]
Céline, member of the board of directors (since 2011)
Pucci, member of the board of directors (since 2007)
Loewe, member of the board of directors (since 2002)
Ferrari, member of the board of directors^[22]
Havas, member of the board of directors (2013–2019)^[20]

Recognition

On 1 December 2022, Arnault was among the guests invited to the state dinner hosted by American president Joe Biden in honor of French president Emmanuel Macron at the White House.^[23]

Personal life

Arnault married Alessandro Vallarino Gancia, heir to the Italian winemaker Gancia, on 24 September 2005.^[3] They divorced in 2010.^[3]

Arnault has 4 children – 2 daughters born 2010 and 2012, and 2 sons born 2013 and 2017. Her 2 children with French businessman Xavier Niel, she has briefly mentioned in an interview with Vogue, are named Elise and Joseph.^[9]

References

^ "Biographie de Xavier Niel" (in French). Challenges. Retrieved 25 May 2020. Le compagnon de Delphine Arnault, fille de Bernard Arnault, est le plus gros business angel français
^ Rupert, Neate (11 January 2023). "LVMH billionaire Bernard Arnault appoints daughter to run Dior". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ellison, Jo (10 October 2014). "Lunch with the FT: Delphine Arnault". Financial Times. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
^ ^a ^b Levine, Joshua (16 February 2013). "The Arnault Legacy". The Wall Street Journal.
^ "Delphine Arnault devient numéro 2 de Louis Vuitton". Les Echos (in French). 25 June 2013. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
^ "Les petits secrets de la famille Arnault, propriétaire de LVMH". Capital.fr (in French). 5 April 2017. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
^ "le Bal des Débutantes 1994". Le Bal. 23 June 2023. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
^ Delphine Arnault, Forbes, 15 May 2007.
^ ^a ^b Goodman, Gaby Wood,Annie Leibovitz,Tonne (15 February 2024). "Delphine Arnault on Family Ties, Protecting History, and a Year of Leadership at Dior". Vogue. Retrieved 28 May 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Delphine Arnault – Director and Executive Vice President of Louis Vuitton, LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA, Investing Businessweek
^ Lisa Wang,Power Moves | Delphine Arnault to Leave Dior for Louis Vuitton Archived 27 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Business of Fashion, 24 June 2013
^ Arnault's Girl Makes Vuitton Move, Vogue.co.uk, 25 June 2013.
^ Delphine Arnault : l'instinct de mode, Le Figaro Madame, 27 May 2014.
^ Delphine Arnault, 39, Fortune
^ Un prix pour se mettre au travail, Le Monde, 9 June 2014.
^ Neate, Rupert (11 January 2023). "Luxury goods billionaire Bernard Arnault appoints daughter to run Dior". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
^ "Who is Delphine Arnault, Dior's new CEO and the eldest daughter of the world's wealthiest man, Bernard Arnault?". The Fashion Enthusiast. 11 February 2023.
^ "Most Powerful Women". Fortune.
^ Daniel Cassady (16 November 2022), Gagosian Forms Star-Studded Board of Directors, Offering a Glimpse at the Gallery's Future ARTnews.
^ ^a ^b Carole Bellemare avec Caroline Beyer,Delphine Arnault-Gancia impose sa marque chez Dior, le Figaro, 16 April 2008
^ Sue Zeidler (18 October 2013), Murdoch re-elected Twenty-First Century Fox chairman Reuters.
^ Board of Directors Ferrari.
^ Aishvarya Kavi (1 December 2022), The Full Guest List for the State Dinner New York Times.

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