He’s someone Trump really looks up to and wants to make happy,” a source said of LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault, the wealthiest man in France.

Jean Arnault, director of Louis Vuitton’s watch division, has to contend with a tough luxury market and stubborn young consumers.

For his latest Vuitton collection, Pharrell Williams tapped his best bud Nigo to be co-creative director. And Bernard Arnault made it back from the Trump inauguration to see it.

The LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton titan had prime seating near former Presidents Bill Clinton, George Bush and Barack Obama.

LVMH chief Bernard Arnault and Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani—the world’s fifth- and eighteenth-wealthiest people—attended President Donald Trump’s inauguration events Monday, marking a pair of surprise billionaire appearances at the event attended by a cadre of moguls worth well over $1 trillion.

While millions know at this point that Melania Trump adores Dior, it seems that Ivanka has a soft spot for the European house, too. The former West Wing adviser wore a Dior dark forest green skirt suit with a thin black belt and a coordinating beret-style hat to the Inauguration ceremony at the U.

Mr Trump is more transactional than presidents before him, which increases the risk of cronyism and self-dealing. But America’s economy, including its technology industry, is too unwieldy and dynamic to petrify into an actual oligarchy, whatever diplomats and departing presidents say. ■

LVMH, which is controlled by the family of multibillionaire Bernard Arnault, was a major sponsor of the Summer Games in Paris.

LVMH has reclaimed its spot as the biggest company in Europe, overtaking Novo Nordisk after a significant drop in the drugmaker's shares. The cause? Concerns that the US governmen

"I didn't want to get out of my seat because I didn't want to lose it," said one guest at President Trump's pre-inauguration Candlelight Dinner.

“The golden age of America begins right now,” Trump proclaimed. For his billionaire backers, it has already begun.

The list of global businessmen and CEOs sitting on the dais for the inauguration adds up to more than $12 trillion in market value and more than $1 trillion in global wealth. From Elon Musk, to Bernard Arnault,