This brand is owned by LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton), the world’s largest luxury group, with around 75 brands across fashion and leather goods, perfumes and cosmetics, watches and jewelry, and wines and spirits. The group operates a highly integrated model, controlling everything from raw material sourcing to retail, including ownership of exotic-skin tanneries such as Heng Long.
In 2024, Italian courts placed Dior’s Italian manufacturing arm under judicial administration after investigators found undocumented workers in unsafe conditions at subcontractors; the order was lifted in early 2025 following mandated reforms. In 2025, Loro Piana was also placed under court-appointed oversight in Italy for labour violations identified at suppliers.
LVMH’s leadership and investment arms have participated in funding Israeli companies. In 2021, Bernard Arnault’s family investment firm, Aglaé Ventures, joined a $120 million funding round for the Israeli cybersecurity company Wiz. In 2022, LVMH Luxury Ventures took part in a $90 million round for Lusix, an Israeli producer of lab-grown diamonds.
LVMH is the world’s largest luxury group, with more than 75 brands spanning fashion, beauty, jewelry, watches, wines, and spirits. The group’s vertically integrated model controls supply from raw material sourcing to retail, allowing it to secure scarce resources such as exotic leathers, rare gemstones, and high-altitude vineyards—a strategy that maximizes prestige but concentrates environmental and social impacts.
Environmental Harm:
LVMH sources raw materials from ecologically sensitive regions, including exotic leathers and rare gemstones. The company has been criticized for slow progress on climate targets relative to peers, and for greenwashing through marketing that obscures the environmental costs of luxury production.
Human Rights Violations:
In 2024, an Italian court probe into Dior and Loro Piana subcontractors uncovered undocumented workers in unsafe conditions, paid well below minimum wage. Past investigations have documented long hours, wage theft, and health and safety violations in LVMH’s ateliers and suppliers. While the group maintains a code of conduct, enforcement remains opaque.
Military & Political Complicity:
In 2021, Bernard Arnault, LVMH’s CEO, has personally invested in Israeli companies via his family’s investment arm, Aglaé Ventures, including participation in a $120 million funding round for cybersecurity firm Wiz in 2021. Reports also link LVMH Luxury Ventures to a 2022 investment in Israeli diamond-growing company Lusix. These financial ties connect the group’s leadership to Israel’s economy during an ongoing military occupation documented for human rights abuses.
Animal Rights Violations:
LVMH sources crocodile, python, and ostrich skins through its own tanneries, a supply chain repeatedly flagged by animal welfare groups for inhumane practices. Leather and exotic skin production is tied to deforestation, habitat loss, and greenhouse gas emissions.
The group’s scale and control over rare resources mean its environmental and human-rights impacts are multiplied across dozens of brands, making LVMH one of the most influential, and scrutinized, players in the luxury industry.