Damien Bertrand is a French luxury executive who grew up in the south of France and graduated from the HEC business school. He began his career at LVMH in 1998 with Guerlain, in France and then as its marketing director in Australia. He then spent eighteen years at L'Oréal's consumer products division, where his roles included marketing director for Europe, president of Maybelline New York, and head of L'Oréal's British and Brazilian subsidiaries; while working in New York he walked past Loro Piana's Madison Avenue shop every morning.
In 2016 he joined Christian Dior Couture in Paris as managing director, in charge first of the women's and then of the men's and baby businesses and overseeing product. In 2021 LVMH appointed him chief executive of Loro Piana from 15 November, succeeding Fabio d'Angelantonio; LVMH's managing director Toni Belloni praised his sense of product excellence and daring ideas.
He began by visiting the company's factories in Piedmont and its boutiques, and concluded that Loro Piana needed modern imagery, stronger womenswear and accessories and a bigger place in the fashion conversation, without a star creative director. Under him it moved its headquarters to the restored Cortile della Seta in Milan's Brera district in 2022, showed men's and women's lines together for the first time, developed new fabrics such as CashFur and a fast-growing leather goods business with handbags such as the Bale, added jewellery and sunglasses, and celebrated its centenary in 2024. LVMH credited him with positioning the house as the "Master of Fibres".
On 10 June 2025 he became deputy chief executive of Louis Vuitton, reporting to Pietro Beccari and overseeing product creation and development, brand image and communication and industrial operations, and in January 2026 he joined LVMH's executive committee.
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