Marc Jacobs Rejects Dior

Marc Jacobs is not going to Dior.A source close to the situation said  Jacobs “declined” the job for good sometime in “mid November.” LVMH reportedly approached Jacobs about taking the

reigns at Dior in July after Bill Gaytten showed his critically-slammed couture collection for the house. Jacobs seemed a shoe-in for the job. But negotiations between LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault, Dior president Sidney Toledano and Jacobs fell apart over money and the reorganization of Jacobs’ team.

According to a source, Jacobs wanted to bring his team from Vuitton to Dior and “transfer the aesthetic from one house to another” (which might explain the dramatic shift towards a more girly aesthetic in Jacobs’ spring collection for Vuitton). As WWD reported earlier this month, that would leave Vuitton, LVMH’s cash cow, in the lurch, with the conglomerate’s other design star, Phoebe Philo, unwilling to leave Céline to replace Jacobs at Vuitton. 

Other possible names for the position that Jacobs declined  are Albert Elbaz, Haider Ackermann, Azzedine Alaia, Ricardo Tisci, and lately the name being bandied around is Tom Ford.

So it looks like Bill Gaytten may stay at the helm of Dior for a while longer and it will be well over a year before LVMH names Galliano’s successor 

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