
Heads LVMH, the world's largest luxury goods company, and has chaired Christian Dior since 1985; Forbes put his net worth at $190.4 billion in December 2025.
1 book of their own · 8 biographies about them
Insider account: Arnault interview book; French only.
Bernard Arnault: La passion créative | Insider account: Arnault interview book; French only. | 2000 | T4 | – |
No current English-language biography exists. The 1992 translation below is the only dedicated one; Thomas covers the business he built.
How fashion became a branded consumer-goods business.
Gucci from a Florence leather shop through family collapse to its Tom Ford revival.
How family luxury houses became conglomerates selling to the mass affluent.
The takeover battles that assembled the group under Arnault.
The house history of Louis Vuitton, the brand at the centre of its luxury group.
Galliano and McQueen inside the LVMH and Kering machine.
The French original of the above.
Insider account: Arnault interview book; French only.
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