He had a romance with Hélène de Fougerolles, but it was one of the most beautiful women in the world that he eventually married and with whom he started a family. Antoine Arnault has been in perfect love with Natalia Vodianova since 2011, who became his wife in 2020. Together they had two children (Maxim, 6, and Roman, 4). The couple, formed by the son of Bernard Arnault, majority shareholder of the luxury group LVMH, and the supermodel, evolves far from the spotlight, taking care to keep their privacy. But questioned by Paris Match, this Wednesday, October 19, the general manager of Berluti and president of Loro Piana, has agreed to make a few rare secrets about his family life. But also on the current misfortune of his wife Natalia.
“My joy is above all the smile of my children“, says Antoine Arnault, the tone is set. These two children have changed his life and the perception of the happiness of the LVMH heir is rather simple. “It would first be to spend time with my loved ones, the family I created and the one I always had, Natalia, our children, my parentss, he agrees. It would end with a dinner with friends and a few schoolboy jokes. I have the same set of friends from school and university. It’s not easy to fit into this band that has been rubbing shoulders for twenty-five years, but some newcomers get hazed from time to time.“A family that remains his priority. The managing director of Berluti is often in the four corners of the world, but when he is in Paris, he wants to come back for Maxim and Roman.
“In the evening, when I’m in Paris, I try ideally to get home around 8 p.m. to put my children to bed, even if it means going back to work afterwards. Taking care of them is one of the prerequisites I set myself when they were born“, book Antoine Arnault. His father was like him a great businessman, but that did not prevent him from devoting himself to his children. “I try, as my father did for me, to spend time with my children, to be a good father. They are still small, so this is limited for the moment to a few poetry recitations and simple additions“, he says on this subject, to our colleagues.
Natalia Vodianova “unhappy” since the war in Ukraine
This interview also allows the husband of Natalia Vodianova to discuss the difficulty in which his wife finds herself since the war in Ukraine. Of Russian origin, the 40-year-old mother “of course suffers from the situation personally“, reports Antoine Arnault. “Her mother and sister are still in Russia, and she also has family in Ukraine. She is also worried about her foundation“, he confided. He explains that she prefers to say the minimum, because “what she might say is likely to be misinterpreted“.”Cash is dwindling, and I see it resilient, looking for solutionshe says. It is not easy at the moment to raise funds for a foundation that works mainly in Russia, because no one wants to be involved directly or indirectly in what is happening there. It’s understandable but it’s still difficult because it’s his life’s work and I see her unhappywondering how it all happened and when it will stop.“