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Philippe Vasset

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Front Row | France
Jean-François Rosso, the Arnault family's staunch custodian

The discreet consultant domiciled in Dubai has been in charge of the security detail that protects LVMH's shareholding family for almost a decade. A contract secured by long-standing loyalties.

Subscribers only Families 06.03.2025

Jean-François Rosso, head of Maegis and a close associate of Charles Pellegrini, coordinates security for LVMH's shareholding family.

Spotlight | France
Arnault family on the verge of controlling over 50% of LVMH

The fall in LVMH's share price, from €850 to €690 in just over a year, has allowed the Arnault family to quietly grow its stake in the group, which now sits just below an absolute majority of 50%.

Subscribers only Families 27.02.2025

The fall in LVMH's share price has allowed the Arnault family to quietly grow its stake in the group to almost 50%.

France, Saudi Arabia
As Al Fayed abuse storm gathers strength, Ritz Paris gets a new chairman close to Riyadh

So far unaffected by complaints filed by victims of late former owner Mohamed Al Fayed's abuse, the Ritz Paris has replaced its chairman, financier Keith Lindsay, with a lawyer who used to manage the lucrative licensing of the Ritz brand.

Subscribers only Entourage 27.02.2025

France
Home to luxury magnates and heirs, Paris's Villa Montmorency tightens up security

After a number of attempted intrusions and burglaries, residents of Paris's Villa Montmorency, among them several wealthy potentates of the luxury goods sector, have hired a security firm which is already protecting their stores on the Avenue Montaigne.

Subscribers only Families 27.02.2025

United Kingdom
Burberry sounds out Kim Jones

The British firm, which is being restructured under its new CEO Joshua Schulman, is talking to the former Dior Homme creative director.

Subscribers only Houses 20.02.2025

France
Goyard capital restructuring fans tensions among family shareholders

The incorporation of a new holding company to replace the president of the board of the luxury baggage group has reawakened tensions among family shareholders which had been latent in recent years.

Subscribers only Families 20.02.2025

France
Jonathan Anderson already moonlighting at Dior

Although officially still at Loewe, the British designer has quietly begun work on the next menswear collections at Dior, where he is set to become creative director. In the coming months, he is expected to take up an unprecedented double role as head of both Dior Homme and Dior Femme.

Subscribers only Houses 20.02.2025

France
Jacquemus misses fundraising targets with L'Oréal deal

Jacquemus last year commissioned Rothschild to find it a minority shareholder in the hope of raising €100m. But five months later, the brand obtained less than a third of that amount when it signed up with L'Oréal.

Subscribers only Houses 20.02.2025

Front Row | France
French ex-foreign minister Hubert Védrine, LVMH's veteran diplomat

The 77-year-old French former foreign minister, who has been a director of the luxury goods giant for more than 20 years, wants to seek a final term at the LVMH general meeting in April. LVMH, for its part, has made no announcement to its shareholders.

Subscribers only Houses 13.02.2025

French former foreign minister, Hubert Védrine, has been a director at LVMH for more than 20 years.

Brunei, France
How the Sultan of Brunei got his hands on an ultra-rare Tiffany Nautilus watch

The Sultan of Brunei, one of the world's leading luxury watch collectors, was seen last month in China with a Tiffany Nautilus watch on his wrist. Only 170 models of the ultra-rare timepiece have been produced but the sultan was helped to get one by the Arnault family, which owns LVMH and Tiffany & Co.

Free access Families 13.02.2025

Front Row | United States
Divesh Makan, the wealth manager who engineered the split between LVMH and Stella McCartney

A director at Stella McCartney, Makan helped pull off the move to buy back LVMH's stake in the brand. The South African is also very close to Louis Vuitton creative director Pharrell Williams. His Iconiq fund manages the assets of a host of Hollywood stars who front luxury brands, as well as leading Silicon Valley executives.

Subscribers only Families 06.02.2025

As discreet as he is influential, Divesh Makan manages and reinvests the fortunes of Silicon Valley billionaires.

France
François-Louis Pinault plays growing role in family's art collection

Kering CEO François-Henri Pinault has never shown much interest in the art collection amassed by his father, but his own son, François-Louis Pinault, is playing a discreet and increasingly central role at the Pinault Collection.

Subscribers only Families 06.02.2025

Spotlight | Middle East
Luxury crisis provides bonanza for Gulf royals

Competition between the Gulf's ruling families for investment in Western luxury brands has been sharpened by the crisis in the sector. From Abu Dhabi to Manama, via Dubai and Doha, the princes of the Gulf are busy bidding for struggling fashion houses.

Subscribers only Families 30.01.2025

The Gulf's ruling families are increasingly competing to buy up Western luxury brands.

France, Switzerland
Former Hermès wealth manager Freymond and French ex-PM Villepin boost art market ties

The exhibition of his daughter's paintings in Eric Freymond's Geneva gallery brought former prime minister Dominique de Villepin closer to the erstwhile wealth manager of the Hermès heir.

Subscribers only Families 30.01.2025

Front Row | France
Private equity mogul Walter Butler bets on French gastronomy

After many years managing a portfolio of industrial and security holdings, the French private equity investor Walter Butler is stepping up his investments in top-of-the-range gastronomy.

Subscribers only Entourage 23.01.2025

Walter Butler is stepping up his investments in top-of-the-range gastronomy.

United Kingdom
LVMH spends lavishly on Jonathan Anderson's label

As it prepares to promote the man who is currently Loewe's artistic director, most likely to Dior, Bernard Arnault's group continues to invest at a loss in Anderson's own brand.

Subscribers only Houses 23.01.2025

Switzerland
Rolex hires top Geneva civil servant

The Hans Wilsdorf Foundation, Rolex's sole shareholder, has been rejigging its board of trustees this past year, bringing in new, younger members. It has just appointed a well-known local figure with a long career at the head of the city's most prestigious institutions.

Subscribers only Houses 23.01.2025

Switzerland, United Kingdom
Jeweller Piaget dragged into McKillen and HBJ's luxury hotel war

The two-year battle between Qatari tycoon Hamad bin Jassim and Irish businessman Patrick McKillen is having unexpected repercussions on the luxury sector, as Piaget, a subsidiary of Swiss giant Richemont, has discovered.

Subscribers only Entourage 23.01.2025

France, Gabon
Arnault sent secret envoy to Africa in bid to buy Karl Lagerfeld's mansion

As Chanel does all it can to make a clean break with the legacy of its iconic creative director, LVMH never misses an opportunity to keep Karl Lagerfeld's memory alive. Bernard Arnault's group went to great lengths to try to acquire the designer's former home, even sending an envoy to Africa to negotiate with the property's current owners.

Subscribers only Houses 23.01.2025

Spotlight | France
François Pinault, 88, returns to the fray to rescue waning empire

Compensating in advance for its soon-to-be-released 2024 results, Kering is now relinquishing stakes in some of its biggest property investments, as Glitz.paris predicted. Meanwhile, founder François Pinault is doing all he can to ensure that his retirement does not coincide with the collapse of the group he spent his entire career growing.

Subscribers only Families 16.01.2025

François-Louis Pinault, François Pinault and François-Henri Pinault.

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Philippe Vasset

Front Row | France
Jean-François Rosso, the Arnault family's staunch custodian

Spotlight | France
Arnault family on the verge of controlling over 50% of LVMH

France, Saudi Arabia
As Al Fayed abuse storm gathers strength, Ritz Paris gets a new chairman close to Riyadh

France
Home to luxury magnates and heirs, Paris's Villa Montmorency tightens up security

United Kingdom
Burberry sounds out Kim Jones

France
Goyard capital restructuring fans tensions among family shareholders

France
Jonathan Anderson already moonlighting at Dior

France
Jacquemus misses fundraising targets with L'Oréal deal

Front Row | France
French ex-foreign minister Hubert Védrine, LVMH's veteran diplomat

Brunei, France
How the Sultan of Brunei got his hands on an ultra-rare Tiffany Nautilus watch

Front Row | United States
Divesh Makan, the wealth manager who engineered the split between LVMH and Stella McCartney

France
François-Louis Pinault plays growing role in family's art collection

Spotlight | Middle East
Luxury crisis provides bonanza for Gulf royals

France, Switzerland
Former Hermès wealth manager Freymond and French ex-PM Villepin boost art market ties

Front Row | France
Private equity mogul Walter Butler bets on French gastronomy

United Kingdom
LVMH spends lavishly on Jonathan Anderson's label

Switzerland
Rolex hires top Geneva civil servant

Switzerland, United Kingdom
Jeweller Piaget dragged into McKillen and HBJ's luxury hotel war

France, Gabon
Arnault sent secret envoy to Africa in bid to buy Karl Lagerfeld's mansion

Spotlight | France
François Pinault, 88, returns to the fray to rescue waning empire

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Indigo Publications' websites

The geopolitics of fake goods

Brands brave the Wild West of the second-hand market

From the Martinez to Claridge's, hostilities rage between five-star hotel mogul Paddy McKillen and Qatar

Philippe Vasset

Front Row | France Jean-François Rosso, the Arnault family's staunch custodian

Spotlight | France Arnault family on the verge of controlling over 50% of LVMH

France, Saudi Arabia As Al Fayed abuse storm gathers strength, Ritz Paris gets a new chairman close to Riyadh

France Home to luxury magnates and heirs, Paris's Villa Montmorency tightens up security

United Kingdom Burberry sounds out Kim Jones

France Goyard capital restructuring fans tensions among family shareholders

France Jonathan Anderson already moonlighting at Dior

France Jacquemus misses fundraising targets with L'Oréal deal

Front Row | France French ex-foreign minister Hubert Védrine, LVMH's veteran diplomat

Brunei, France How the Sultan of Brunei got his hands on an ultra-rare Tiffany Nautilus watch

Front Row | United States Divesh Makan, the wealth manager who engineered the split between LVMH and Stella McCartney

France François-Louis Pinault plays growing role in family's art collection

Spotlight | Middle East Luxury crisis provides bonanza for Gulf royals

France, Switzerland Former Hermès wealth manager Freymond and French ex-PM Villepin boost art market ties

Front Row | France Private equity mogul Walter Butler bets on French gastronomy

United Kingdom LVMH spends lavishly on Jonathan Anderson's label

Switzerland Rolex hires top Geneva civil servant

Switzerland, United Kingdom Jeweller Piaget dragged into McKillen and HBJ's luxury hotel war

France, Gabon Arnault sent secret envoy to Africa in bid to buy Karl Lagerfeld's mansion

Spotlight | France François Pinault, 88, returns to the fray to rescue waning empire

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Glitz on social media

Indigo Publications' websites

Front Row | France
Jean-François Rosso, the Arnault family's staunch custodian

Spotlight | France
Arnault family on the verge of controlling over 50% of LVMH

France, Saudi Arabia
As Al Fayed abuse storm gathers strength, Ritz Paris gets a new chairman close to Riyadh

France
Home to luxury magnates and heirs, Paris's Villa Montmorency tightens up security

United Kingdom
Burberry sounds out Kim Jones

France
Goyard capital restructuring fans tensions among family shareholders

France
Jonathan Anderson already moonlighting at Dior

France
Jacquemus misses fundraising targets with L'Oréal deal

Front Row | France
French ex-foreign minister Hubert Védrine, LVMH's veteran diplomat

Brunei, France
How the Sultan of Brunei got his hands on an ultra-rare Tiffany Nautilus watch

Front Row | United States
Divesh Makan, the wealth manager who engineered the split between LVMH and Stella McCartney

France
François-Louis Pinault plays growing role in family's art collection

Spotlight | Middle East
Luxury crisis provides bonanza for Gulf royals

France, Switzerland
Former Hermès wealth manager Freymond and French ex-PM Villepin boost art market ties

Front Row | France
Private equity mogul Walter Butler bets on French gastronomy

United Kingdom
LVMH spends lavishly on Jonathan Anderson's label

Switzerland
Rolex hires top Geneva civil servant

Switzerland, United Kingdom
Jeweller Piaget dragged into McKillen and HBJ's luxury hotel war

France, Gabon
Arnault sent secret envoy to Africa in bid to buy Karl Lagerfeld's mansion

Spotlight | France
François Pinault, 88, returns to the fray to rescue waning empire