2. The Fashion Business
Pascale Mussard: Luxe Environmentalist
You could call Pascale Mussard the living conscience of Hermès. The great-great-great-granddaughter of the humble saddlemaker Thierry Hermès, Mussard is a fighter, determined to continue her family’s 172-year history of balancing tradition and modernity, with a keen eye toward sustainability.
Making Scents of It: GIVAUDAN
The temptation on being introduced to Jean Guichard and Antoine Lie is to look each of them in the nose. For both are perfumers, working for the world’s leading fragrance company, a giant called Givaudan that holds a 25% market share of an industry with a global value of $14.6 billion.
Yves Carcelle for Louis Vuitton
On his watch, Louis Vuitton has grown from a venerable luggage manufacturer into the world’s most profitable luxury brand. For its owner LVMH, Yves Carcelle’s less than 20 per cent of total sales translates into 60 per cent of profit