It’s New York Fashion week and the industry is abuzz with rumors about who will take over luxury group LMVH’s Christian Dior brand.
Louis Vuitton creative director Marc Jacobs and partner Robert Duffy are reportedly in the middle of negotiating salaries over $10 million each plus certain benefits to take on the French haute couture house.
"According to sources, Dior president and chief executive officer Sidney Toledano is said to have recently spent several days in New York to meet with legal representatives for Jacobs and Duffy," WWD reported. "The duo is believed to be looking for a salary somewhere in the low eight figures each, plus other benefits."
The role would involve more work than his current position at Vuitton. The Dior appointment would include two couture collections a year, involving detailed Paris-based atelier work with the Dior team, plus four ready-to-wear collections annually.
He also has his own two New York-based women’s and menswear collections – Marc Jacobs and Marc by Marc Jacobs.
The editor of Italian Vogue, Franca Sozzani, also put her two cents in, suggesting that Dior rehire Galliano.
“Look, I understand their point of view,” she told Newsweek. “I understand they couldn’t just say, "Bad boy! We forgive you! Come Back!"
"But it’s really a pity. I will never believe he believed what he said. I think he was drunk and alone in a bar. When people go crazy they go crazy. It’s a human case, it’s not political or religious. He didn’t kill anyone!”