Helen Zhou was born in Shanghai, where she was raised by her grandmother. She graduated from the Sun Yat-sen University in English and Business and started her career at a beauty brand in Guangzhou. She is now General manager of Guerlain, China. In 2013, she applied to Sephora, her first job within the LVMH Group. She had to be interviewed by the Group's President for China. To her great surprise, when she opened the door, the President turned out to be a woman, Anne-Véronique...

Masumi Suzuki's background is not common. As a graduate from the Gemological Institute of America, she worked most of her career in the highend jewelry and watchmaking industry.  Masumi joined RIMOWA in 2016 and as Head of sales she now manages a team of 150 people to expand the brand.  In December 2018, Masumi contributed to the opening of the RIMOWA flagship store in Ginza 7 in Tokyo, a huge store of 800 square meters on three floors. The project had only been launched eight months earlier...

Dominique Giovine is half French and half American. She grew up in Bordeaux, surrounded by great vineyards, then went on to university in the US where she studied advertising. Dominique “felt enamored with Moët Hennessy” and has been working for the Maison for more than 20 years now. She started in sales and evolved through the years to become Vice-President and General Manager for the mid-south region of the USA, at Moët Hennessy. Ten years ago, Dominique was just promoted head of the...

Pour Séraphine Dhellemmes, depuis 2015 et la fin de ses études d’ingénieur, tout s’est enchainé très vite, naturellement, « avec de la chance et sans [qu’elle] l’ait vraiment cherché ».  Quand son stage dans le secteur des cosmétiques pour LVMH Recherche se transforme en CDI, elle a le sentiment que ce qui lui arrive est un cadeau. Mais un cadeau qu’elle n’aurait pas eu le temps de désirer. Alors après quelques années à son poste, elle s’autorise à réfléchir à ce qu’elle veut vraiment pour la...

Luciana Farina grew up in a little village in Italy where working at Louis Vuitton, Dior or Celine was not an obvious career choice. She was in her 20s when she went to a recruitment agency asking for a job. That is how she got hired at her first fashion house at the HR department. At the end of her contract, there was no available position for her. She was quite upset because she would have liked to continue her career in this field, since she had developed a form of attachment to the Maison...

Valérie Dubois a passé 16 années dans l’industrie agro-alimentaire avant d’arriver chez Louis Vuitton en 2013, comme Directrice des ateliers de Vendée, en France. Un jour, un chef d’équipe vient lui annoncer qu’un tout nouveau produit est en train de sortir de la ligne. C’est le sac Tote W. De ce produit, elle a vu la maquette quelques semaines auparavant. Mais le voir « naître » c’est tout autre chose.  Les équipes sont fières de partager avec elle le savoir-faire pour concevoir ce sac, et...

En 2015, Florence Pennec travaille chez Hennessy au sein du département Finance depuis quinze ans déjà, quand un jour son patron lui propose un poste à la production, sur le site du Haut Bagnolet. Florence, expert-comptable de formation, est d’abord très surprise : c’est un secteur où n’évoluent traditionnellement que des hommes. Mais elle accepte tout de suite cette formidable opportunité.  Au début, Florence sent des réticences dans le regard de certains. Puis elle décrète que ce n’est pas...

Since she was little, Mathilde Christiansen had always been interested in making clothes, but never really considered that maybe it could be a job.  But when the choice came to study, she picked a foundation course in fashion, and has worked in the sector ever since.   In 2013, Mathilde was senior designer at Kenzo when her boss left the Maison. No one amid the management team had approached her to offer her to replace him at the head of the menswear design team. And she, "as often women" as...

Joyce Weng is UK Managing Director Bulgari. For Joyce, working at Bulgari is “faith”, as she called it.  After a visit in France where she was fascinated by the colors of the bags and jewelry in a Bulgari store, she received a phone call to be interviewed as PR Director of the Maison in Taiwan. Later, back in China, she continued her way through the company and finally became UK Managing Director at Bulgari.  One day, in 2009, Joyce was entrusted with the responsibility of organizing a...

Karen Williams is Global Academy and Education Director at MAKE UP FOR EVER. Every day, she teaches young people how to become make-up artists.  She came from a very polyglot family and lived all over the world: Germany, Africa, India, Portugal, wondering what she wanted to become. She dreamed herself as a make-up artist for horror films. Then she came to France and graduated from a make-up school. For twenty year, she has been working her way out to backstage, advertising, etc. in the...

Charlotte Toubeau est Cheffe Patissière adjointe à la Grande Epicérie de Paris. Elle gère au quotidien une équipe de 25 personnes.  Avant d'en arriver là, elle a fait des études de droit et de compta-gestion, a tout repris de zéro, passé son CAP et a gravi les échelons à Lyon, puis à Paris. Quand Charlotte commence ce métier il y a une quinzaine d’années, il y a très peu de femmes. Cinq ans plus tard, le métier commence à se féminiser. Pour autant, les gros postes ne sont pas pour les...

There are times in a career when everything changes. Turning points after which nothing will be the same. These moments remain carved in our memories. The podcast series Tips to the Top meets with 12 women from the LVMH group. They are women with inspiring life stories – with diverse and sometimes unexpected career paths.  They are Leather Goods Manufacturing Director at Louis Vuitton, Deputy Pastry Chef for the Grande Epicerie de Paris, Métiers d'Art Ambassador for the Metiers d’Art,...

Il y a des moments dans une carrière où tout change. Des moments qui marquent un avant et un après. Et qui resteront gravés.  Tips to the top vous emmène à la rencontre de 12 femmes du groupe LVMH. Des femmes aux parcours inspirants, aux métiers très divers, parfois inattendus.  Elles sont Directrice des Ateliers Louis Vuitton, Cheffe Pâtissière adjointe à la Grande Épicerie de Paris, Ambassadrice Métiers d’Art, Directrice internationale E-commerce chez Christian Dior Couture ou encore...