Marc Jacobs @Dior & Phoebe Philo @Louis Vuitton | Industry Buzz Fires Up |
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Smart Sensuality Duo: Marc & Phoebe
The deal is hardly secured, but reasons why it could be good are:
1. Jacobs is as much a star as Galliano but works well with management.
2. Dior is not in need of reinvention.
3. Like Riccardo Tisci, Marc Jacobs is a man adored by Smart Sensuality women. If there’s an ounce of anti-female misogyny and hauteur in his mind, we’ve never heard about it.
4. Marc Jacobs at Christian Dior is an interesting foil to Chanel’s Karl Lagerfeld. Both are businesspeople as well as creative visionaries.
John Galliano, the former Dior designer whose downfall unleashed all these moves at LVMH, was not a business visionary or brand pragmatist. In today’s world the most talented designers also understand business.
WWD reports that LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault, Sidney Toledano, Dior’s chief executive officer, and Delphine Arnault, deputy managing director at Dior are meeting with Mac Jacobs and his longtime business partner Robert Duffy this week about a move to Dior.
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