Bernard Arnault

Chairman and CEO of LVMH; assembled the modern luxury conglomerate from Boussac and Dior.

7 biographies about them

Biographies about them 7

No current English-language biography exists. The 1992 translation below is the only dedicated one; Thomas covers the business he built.

Teri Agins · 1999 · How luxury became a consolidated branded industry, with LVMH at the centre.

Sara Gay Forden · 2000 · The takeover fight Arnault lost to PPR; his method under fire.

Dana Thomas · 2007 · The industrialisation of luxury; LVMH and Arnault at the centre.

Nadège Forestier, Nazanine Ravai · 1992 · English translation of the 1990 French biography; covers only the takeover years.

Paul-Gérard Pasols · 2005 · Authorised house history of the asset that anchors the whole group.

Dana Thomas · 2015 · Galliano and McQueen; what Arnault's designer model did to designers.

Nadège Forestier · 1990 · The French original of the above.