Delphine Arnault

Delphine Arnault (born 4 April 1975) is a French businesswoman, director and executive vice president at Louis Vuitton, and chairwoman and chief executive officer of Dior.

She is the daughter of Bernard Arnault and sister of Antoine Arnault.

Dalphine is the oldest child of Bernard Arnault from his first wife, Anne Dewavrin.

She has a younger brother, Antoine Arnault.

Between the ages of seven and 10, they lived in New York state where they attended a French-American school.

She later earned degrees from the London School of Economics and EDHEC Business School (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales du Nord).

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

Arnault began her career working at McKinsey & Company for two years, and she joined LVMH in 2000.

Since 2003, Arnault has been a member of the management board of the group LVMH, the first woman and youngest person to occupy that post.

Arnault 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.

Arnault married Alessandro Vallarino Gancia, heir to the Italian winemaker Gancia, on 24 September 2005.

In 2008, Arnault 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.

They divorced in 2010.

She lives with her partner, French businessman Xavier Niel, with whom she has one daughter, born in 2012, and a son, born in 2016.

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.

In January 2023, it was announced she was appointed CEO and chair of Dior, effective in February.

On 1 December 2022, Arnault was among the guests invited to the state dinner hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden in honor of President Emmanuel Macron at the White House.