Some people are more elegant than others. Some CV also. Eric Vallat, thirty-seven years, is beyond reproach. Trained in the business in the State of the art of business schools CET , this young "property in every" man, the allure of ideal son-in-law, and the sympathetic first aligns in his three biography of biggest names in the luxury French: Louis Vuitton, Dior and now Bonpoint, absolute must of the chic good good kind for beautiful neighbourhoods marmots, where he became CEO. An appointment that marks the beginning of a new chapter in the history of the famous sign of child mode, recently passed under the control of the company EPI, the holding company of the Descours, group ex-actionnaire André family.
For Eric Vallat, it all started avenue Montaigne, this Mecca of Parisian luxury. But these beginnings were not necessarily also glamour could imagine. Approached by LVMH (owner of the "echo") for a classic financial headquarters job, the defector from the BNP preferred to its first weapons store in this case, that of the malletier Louis Vuitton even endorse a blouse and play some time handlers. Hands in leather goods, if not entirely in clay.

The calculation will be paying. Because, in this second half of the 1990s, they are still few, even graduates of schools to accept to pay of the person to serve the customer, grouse. Number two of the store avenue Montaigne from 1996 to 1997, Eric Vallat, after a detour via the cheap another LVMH sanctuary returned the following year as number one. Before be bombed twenty-nine years, Director-General of Louis Vuitton France.
"This first experience in-store me has been very useful." "She gave me legitimacy", comments on the new leader of Bonpoint. Little inclined by nature to spend his days behind a computer, it flourishes on the other hand in its role as manager. And is soon his epaulettes to populate new stripes, with his appointment in 2003 as a patron of Louis Vuitton Europe, based in Paris. can "41 stores, 1,100 people" be read on his CV. As the turnover, motus: luxury, discretion in these things is a cardinal virtue.
Expatriation in the Japan
To be quite happy, it was more to this son of shipowner born in Senegal and fed milk from the exotic to feel a little offshore air. A wish filled in October 2004. After successively screening of Sidney Toledano, CEO of Christian Dior Couture, of Concetta Lanciaux, the very dreaded Advisor Bernard Arnault, and Bernard Arnault, Eric Vallat then flew with his wife and his three daughters to Tokyo, where it was waiting for the Chair of President of Christian Dior Japan.
Of this expatriation in the land of the rising sun, head of the mythical mark of the group, the former rising star of LVMH memories of course excellent. Sensitive to "the extreme refinement" of the Japanese, in their "respect for the other", for the sake of harmony, it is is invested in the opening of two "flagships", one in Osaka, in Nagoya. But, these days, there was also much browse stores Bonpoint...