LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault commands a $195 billion luxury empire spanning 75 fashion and cosmetics houses including Louis Vuitton, Dior, Tiffany, Bulgari, and Hennessy. LVMH generated $86 billion in revenue in 2023, making it Europe's most profitable consumer goods company with operating margins exceeding 26%. Arnault, born in 1949 in Roubaix, France, seized control of LVMH in a celebrated 1988 hostile takeover and spent three decades assembling the most profitable luxury conglomerate ever built, proving that premium fashion remains virtually recession-proof at the ultra-high-net-worth tier.
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