Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault born 5 March 1949) is a French investor, businessman and art collector.[2][3] He is the chairman and chief executive of LVMH Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton SE, the world's largest luxury goods company.[4] Arnault is, as of August 2021, the third-richest man in the world, with a net worth of $174 billion USD. Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault was born on 5 March 1949, in Roubaix, France.[6][7] His mother, Marie-Josèphe Savinel, daughter of Étienne Savinel, had a “fascination for Dior“. His father, manufacturer Jean Léon Arnault, a graduate of École Centrale Paris, owned the civil engineering company Ferret-Savinel. Arnault began his career in 1971, at Ferret-Savinel, and was its president from 1978 to 1984.[7][9] In 1984, Arnault, then a young real estate developer, heard that the French government was set to choose someone to take over the Boussac Saint-Frères empire, a textile and retail conglomerate that owned Ch
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