Meet the 7 top Fashion CEOs of the world
When it comes to the world of fashion, the designers of a fashion house are better known than the fashion CEOs. However, in some cases, it is the fashion CEO who commands more respect.
Here is a list of the top fashion CEOs who are more famous than the designers that work for that brand.
- Bernard Arnault
Bernard Arnault is not just a famous fashion CEO but is also the founder & Chairman of the famous LVMH Group. LVMH is the world’s largest luxury goods company. This also makes 74-year-old Bernard Arnault one of the richest men in the world. He currently owns a 43.5% stake in the LVMH Group.
- Tadashi Yanai
This 74-year-old Japanese billionaire is a founder and president of a company named Fast Retailing which owns the brand Uniqlo. He opened the first Uniqlo store in Hiroshima in 1984 and has since never looked back. He was also a part of the Board of Directors with Softbank, a Japanese multinational investment company before retiring in 2019.
- Les Wexner
Lex Wexner is the CEO of a company named The Limited which is better known as the holding company of famous brands like Victoria’s Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch, Express Inc. and Bath & Body Works. He began his career working in a small apparel store named Leslie’s owned by his parents. The store was named after him! In 1963, when his parents went for a long vacation after ten years of working without a break, Wexner changed the store’s merchandise and gave it a new look and even changed the name to The Limited. This new concept proved to be highly profitable and rapidly expanded in size.
- Helena Helmersson
Helmersson is the CEO of the Swedish brand H&M. She began her career in 1997 with H&M as a Section Manager in the buying department before finally moving to the corner office in 2020. Helmersson is also rated as one of the most powerful businesswomen in Sweden and also ranks as one of the top female fashion CEOs in the world.
- Stefan Larsson
Stefan Larsson is the CEO of the Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation which owns brands like Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Warner’s, Olga and True & Co. Before joining PVH, Larsson was the fashion CEO of Ralph Lauren Corporation. He also serves on the Board of Directors of a company named RealReal Inc. which provides a platform for reselling luxury goods and is also listed on Nasdaq.
- Amancio Ortega
Ortega is a Spanish businessman who is also the founder-chairman of Inditex Fashion Group which owns brands like Zara and Bershka. Just like LVMH Group’s Bernard Arnault, Ortega also appears in the world’s richest men’s list. In 1950, 14-year Ortega started his career in a small shop named Gala where he used to make shirts by hand. Slowly, he learned the trade and started the first Zara store in 1975 which is now a global brand.
- Leena Nair
Nair was recently named as the global CEO of the fashion house Chanel. Before Chanel, she was the Chief HR Officer with Unilever. She was the first female, the first Asian and the youngest ever in Unilever to ascend to this position. Nair was born in Kolhapur, Maharashtra in 1969 and completed her Bachelor’s in Engineering (Electronics & Telecommunication) before completing her post-graduation from XLRI, Jamshedpur. She is also a gold medallist from XLRI.
Unlike the brands they manage, these fashion CEOs prefer to lead a very low-key life and shun the limelight. Instead, they believe in letting their work do all the talking for them!
This according to these famous fashion CEOs is the best life strategy!
Description If you are a famous fashion CEO, you don’t need to as flamboyant as the brands you handle. Atleast that’s what these 7 fashion CEOs believe in. Here are the 7 famous fashion CEOs in the world
