French businessman Antoine Arnaud

Arno Antoine is a businessman (photo below) from France. Chairman of the Board of Directors of Loro Piana. Head of the company "Berluti." In this article, a brief biography of the entrepreneur will be presented.

Moving to the USA

Antoine Arnault was born in the town of Roubaix (France) in 1977. When he was still young, the whole family had to leave their homeland and live four years in America. In the early 1980s, the president was François Mitterrand, who decided to conduct anti-capitalist modernization, nationalizing large companies and banks. Thus, he completely ruined the atmosphere for business. Then the father of Antoine - Bernard Arnault moved with his family to the suburbs of New York. The hero of this article went to the Franco-American school. The future businessman Antoine Arnault became a real star there. The boy did not part with the bicycle, was engaged in swimming and played football. And after six months of training he was fluent in English. In the future Antoine confesses in one of the interviews that life in the US was for him an ideal childhood.

First job

Soon the Arno family returned to France. Antoine was barely nine years old. At the same time, the French government put up for sale a bankrupt Agash-Villo holding company. Bernard Arnault decided to buy it. The bonus to the deal was attached to the dusty fashion house "Christian Dior." Thus began the history of the great empire of LVMH.

Future businessman Antoine Arnaud got a job in his father's company. The young man worked at the Louis Vuitton store in Paris. When it was time to get an education, Antoine decided to choose a college in Montreal, where he began to master business management. Arno was an outsider in an unfamiliar country. This helped the young man concentrate on his studies. After graduating from college, he returned to France and founded with his friends the Internet company "Domainu." After the sale of this company Bernard offered his 25-year-old son to head the marketing department in "Louis Vuitton".

Career

Businessman Antoine Arnaud was interested in advertising since childhood and understood her perfectly. Bernard knew about this as his son and instructed him to work on establishing communication between the creative director of "Louis Vuitton" Mark Jacobs and the audience of the brand. Six years later, Antoine rose to a place on the board of directors of the company. The advertising actions of Arno Jr. were incredibly successful. Especially admired the world of fashion was his collaboration with Annie Leibovitz. The photographer took pictures of several international celebrities (Muhammad Ali, Angelina Jolie, Mikhail Gorbachev, Keith Richards) with Louis Vuitton handbags.

New brand

Soon French businessman Antoine Arnaud became interested in Berluti. He turned to Pietro Beccari (vice president of marketing for Louis Vuitton), with whom he developed a detailed plan of action. To begin with, Antoine drew designer Alessandro Sartori, who worked as a creative director in Zi Zeni. Together with the Italian, Arnaud invented a new philosophy of Berluti, focusing exclusively on quality and craftsmanship. Here is how Antoine himself describes the client of the company: "This is an eclectic man, combining Italian spirit and French style. He does not sit seated in the office, but travels a lot. This is a modern man, who understands everything from wine to art. "

Future plans

Privileged name - that's what inherited Arno Antoine. The businessman, whose biography is presented above, considers this an incredible responsibility. And the only way not to discredit the name is hard work. The entrepreneur has many other hobbies, but his own future he links exclusively to the empire built by his father.

Personal life

In the summer of 2011, businessman Antoine Arnault met a philanthropist, a top model and simply a beauty Natalia Vodianova. The girl just divorced from Justin Portman, with whom she lived for ten years, having borne three children from him. But this did not stop Antoine. He became for Vodyanova inspiration, support and salvation. Even being with a businessman in a relationship, Natalia felt independent.

Now the pair has two sons: Maxim (2014) and Roman (2016). Natalia and Antoine still live in a civil marriage. In one of the interviews Vodyanova said that because of the high employment they simply can not play the wedding. Antoine spends a lot of time on business, and Natalia - on the organization of charity auctions and balls. But the former model is sure that sooner or later they will still get married.