Delphine Arnault

Delphine Arnault took over Christian Dior Couture in February 2023 and has spent the three years since navigating one of luxury’s most consequential creative and commercial transitions. She inherited a house with robust revenue growth, then steered it through a global luxury slowdown that saw full-year Christian Dior Group revenues slip 4.5% to roughly $90 billion in 2025. Her most consequential bet has been creative: In 2025, Arnault appointed Jonathan Anderson as creative director, making Anderson, formerly of Loewe, the first designer since Christian Dior himself to oversee both men’s and women’s collections. Arnault, a former McKinsey consultant, also sits on the board and executive committee of LVMH, parent of Christian Dior Couture, which is run by her father, LVMH chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault.