Like any corporatized, cliquey industry run by people whose basic human needs are easily met, fashion loves to create drama where there isn’t any—or only just a little. Sometimes, though, the drama is real—at least real enough to give you a little bit of insight into what is actually going on.
To me, the widely known but never publicly acknowledged rift between Tiffany vice president of product and communication, Alexandre Arnault, and former executive creative director Ruba Abu-Nimah, says something interesting about the integration of Tiffany, one of America’s only true luxury brands, into LVMH, the biggest luxury conglomerate in the world.
