Bernard Arnault as luxury mogul and new fashion playboy?
We can’t say, but under the beach umbrellas, in the chic cafés lining the seafront and aboard the many megayachts moored in Saint Tropez, the summer gossip is all the same. The richest man in France and the seventh-richest in the world is on the market again!
And so among the international jet-set thronging celebrated Saint Tropez, between bored wives and old fogies, amid an army of hookers and a sea of demanding fans, this is the only subject of conversation! All the women dream of having a grand romance with him, though they would be satisfied even with just a quickie, because he is the emperor of luxury, fashion czar, dictator of Logomania, king of the timeless bubbles, the high priest of absolute fetishism, the only human being considered a living luxury boutique, universally considered the man who can really make a woman the world’s most fulfilled and happiest! He is the indomitable Monsieur Bernard Arnault, chairman and owner of the French luxury conglomerate LVMH Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy.
During the latest haute couture fashion shows in Paris, as the sumptuous festively decorated saloons greeted the ever less impressive artistic labours of the fashion creators, the real boom, the real news was not dictated by the fashions paraded on the catwalks. On the contrary, ladies and gentlemen, the real news was dictated by the public with its constant buzzing, refined whispering and exultant tweeting, in being able to gossip and tittle-tattle the way fashion never had before, and all this right behind the back of the supreme sovereign, Monsieur Arnault the Emperor.
And then on July 3 last, after the Dior Haute Couture show, which saw the debut of its new creative director, Raf Simons, "The Daily", the newspaper launched specially for the iPad by telecommunications magnate Rupert Murdoch, had the courage to come out into the open with the choicest titbit of gossip as the true and only latest Parisian haute couture trend, and so with careless nonchalance, "The Daily" told the world that Bernard Arnault, tycoon of luxury, and his wife Helen Mercier were breaking up. According to the paper the beautiful and gentle Helen Mercier, Mr. Arnault’s second wife, had left him for a younger man, having abandoned the marital home in December last year. It is many months now since Mrs. Arnault last appeared at her husband’s side. She was missing from the front row at the most important fashion shows of the family’s luxury brand, public events she always attended at her husband's side in the past.
But "The Daily" continued by relating an even more exciting story. In fact, according to Murdoch’s newspaper, in the meantime Mr. Arnault also has a new love interest. It seems he is having an affair with the journalist Virginie Mouzat, fashion editor at the French daily Le Figaro. Last year it began to be noticed that she had suddenly abandoned the chic androgynous style she had always favored, embracing a more glamorous and above all unclothed style.
In addition to increasingly wearing super see-through outfits that leave nothing, absolutely nothing, to the eccentric male erotic imagination (truly a pity!), it seems the journalist has also developed a true passion for self-portraiture, a fetishist of the autoclick. Just browse the Web and find the sexy lady at Google image, where you’ll immediately see there are quite a few websites with "Erotic Self-Portraits" where she appears the way her Momma made her, in all her loveliness. A shot that Virginie herself took in a hotel mirror, and if the male eye manages to focus closely, it will notice that the bold photo is not just striking for forms and nudity, but also calls dangerously in doubt something else ... her true hair color! (Another and doubly great sin!).
You can see the picture for yourselves below. Judge for yourselves!
So now this rumor-à-porter is on the lips of all the true fashionistas in this overheated summer, and this despite the LVMH group managing to get "The Daily" to remove the story only a few hours after its publication.
Shortly after the Twitter account @LVMH ran this short and concise statement:
“The Daily made yesterday certain statements concerning Mr. and Mrs. Arnault. These statements are totally false.”
You can find this prominently displayed on their page and below here!
Hummm!! What do you think?
