Delphine Arnault


Delphine Arnault is a French businesswoman, director and executive vice president of Louis Vuitton.

Biography

Education and early career

Delphine Arnault earned degrees from the London School of Economics and EDHEC Business School.
She began her career working for the strategy consulting firm McKinsey & Company, and she joined LVMH in 2000.

LVMH (Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton)

Since 2003, she has been a member of the management board of the group LVMH, the first woman and youngest person to occupy that post.
She is also a member of the board of directors for the labels Céline, Loewe and Pucci, Moët Hennessy, and M6, as well as a managing partner of a wealth management company; more recently, she became a member of the board of directors of 20th Century Fox and Havas.
In 2008, she was named deputy chief of the designer Christian Dior Couture, which she quit in 2013 to join Louis Vuitton as director and executive vice president.
In May 2014, Arnault started the LVMH Prize, an international competition for young fashion designers. The objective of the LVMH group is 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.

Private life

She is the oldest child of Bernard Arnault from his first wife, Anne Dewavrin. She has a younger brother, Antoine Arnault.
She married Alessandro Vallarino Gancia, heir to the famous Italian winemaker Gancia, on 24 September 2005. They divorced in 2010.
She currently lives with her partner French businessman Xavier Niel with whom she has one daughter, born on August 17, 2012.