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• Less Is More for Louis Vuitton as It Pulls Expansion

  

  Louis Vuitton, the world's biggest luxury brand in terms of sales, is planning to dampen its expansion worldwide and focus on high-end products to preserve its exclusive image, said Bernard Arnault, chief executive of parent LVMH.

• UPDATE 2-Louis Vuitton slows down expansion to protect image

  PARIS, Jan 31- Louis Vuitton, the world's biggest luxury brand in terms of sales, is planning to dampen its expansion worldwide and focus on high-end products to preserve its exclusive image, said Bernard Arnault, chief executive of parent LVMH.

• Christian Dior highlights U.S. luxury rebound

  PARIS, Jan 21- The U.S. market for high-end luxury goods rebounded in 2012 as consumer sentiment improved, the head of Christian Dior, one of France's biggest fashion brands, said on Monday.

• REUTERS MAGAZINE-The Swiss turn on the super-rich

  Jan 21- In February 2008, Thomas Minder, a Swiss businessman whose family-owned company is best known for its old-fashioned herbal toothpaste, attacked his banker, UBS Chairman Marcel Ospel, as if he were a form of stubborn plaque. At a shareholders' meeting in Basel, he stormed the podium as Ospel addressed the crowd.

• LVMH says Louis Vuitton CEO quits over ill health

  The world's largest luxury company said Jordi Constans would be replaced by Michael Burke, chief executive since February of Bulgari, the Italian jeweller that LVMH added to its stable last year. Group CEO Bernard Arnault added in a statement that Burke had "enormous experience" and "knows Louis Vuitton well".

• Actor Depardieu: Success Being Punished in France

  

  The French actor, accused by French government leaders of being "pathetic" and unpatriotic in trying to dodge taxes by buying a house over the border in Belgium, has hit back at politicians.

• Actor Depardieu's Belgium Move 'Pathetic:' French PM

  

  Actor Gerard Depardieu's decision to establish residency in Belgium, which does not have a wealth tax, by buying a house just over the border with France, is "pathetic" and unpatriotic, French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said on Wednesday.

• INTERVIEW-Lagerfeld says Ghesquiere with Arnault "not bad idea"

  PARIS, Nov 8- Star designer Karl Lagerfeld said the departure of Nicolas Ghesquiere from Balenciaga as artistic director to create his own brand with backing from LVMH's Bernard Arnault would ``not be a bad idea'' as the group owned many old labels.

• ANALYSIS-Burberry smells a chance in fragrance business

  *Burberry's move could inspire Gucci, Prada. Like most luxury firms, the British brand licenses its perfume business, in this case to Interparfums, which also sells scents for an array of other names, from shoemaker Jimmy Choo to penmaker Montblanc.

• UPDATE 1-LVMH's Hermes stake targeted by preliminary probe

  PARIS, Oct 12- Paris prosecutors have launched a preliminary criminal investigation into the conditions surrounding luxury group LVMH's building of a stake in bag maker Hermes, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Friday.

• CORRECTED-LVMH's Hermes stake targeted by preliminary probe

  PARIS, Oct 12- Paris prosecutors have launched a preliminary criminal investigation into the conditions surrounding luxury group LVMH's building of a stake in bag maker Hermes, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Friday. The move comes after Hermes last month asked prosecutors to open a probe into alleged insider trading and share manipulation by LVMH.

• LVMH's Hermes stake targetted by preliminary probe

  PARIS, Oct 12- Paris prosecutors have launched a preliminary criminal investigation into the conditions surrounding luxury group LVMH's building of a stake in bag maker Hermes, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Friday. The move comes after Hermes last month asked prosecutors to open a probe into alleged insider trading and share manipulation by LVMH.

• France's richest man to get honorary knighthood

  LONDON-- He's taken heat for talking about moving from France to Belgium to avoid high taxes _ and now he's raising eyebrows with an honor from the British Queen. Bernard Arnault, the luxury goods chief who is France's wealthiest man, is set to receive an honorary knighthood in Britain.

• LVMH head Arnault to be knighted in London

  PARIS, Oct 7- The chief executive of French luxury group LVMH, Bernard Arnault, is set to be knighted in London for his contributions to the British luxury industry, an LVMH spokesman said on Sunday. With the knighthood, Arnault will join such personalities as Bill Gates, Stephen Spielberg and Placido Domingo, all of whom have been similarly honored.

• Louis V, Miu Miu and Elie Saab give grand finale

  The Louis Vuitton showman thus capped an incredibly strong Paris fashion week _ with help from artist Daniel Buren _ by building a life-size shopping mall inside the Louvre. Understatement is not a word in Jacobs' vocabulary, so a collaboration with the minimalist artist _ who made the famed striped columns in Paris' Palais Royal _ might have raised eyebrows.