This should be interesting. The word on the street is that Madonna is going to be the face of Louis Vuitton for Spring 2009. They’ve even lined up some pretty big photographers to snap the smug one’s mug.
Here’s where it gets kind of interesting. Everyone is painfully aware of Madonna and her Kabbalah followings. She even has gone so far as to include Kabbalah water only, in the demands she is making on Guy Ritchie and how he takes care of the boys. So clearly, she’s pretty passionate about the religion. So I wonder, as she signs her checks from Vuitton, if this little tidbit will be important to her.
The French book Louis Vuitton, A French Saga (authored by French journalist Stephanie Bonvicini and published by Paris-based Editions Fayard) tells how members of the Vuitton family actively aided the puppet government led by Marshal Philippe Pétain, increasing their wealth from their business affairs with the Nazi Germans. The family set up a factory dedicated to producing artifacts glorifying Pétain, including more than 2,500 busts. Petain’s Vichy regime was responsible for the deportation of French Jews to German concentration camps.
Caroline Babulle, a spokeswoman for the publisher (Fayard) said, “They [Louis Vuitton Co.] have not contested anything in the book, but they are trying to bury it by pretending it doesn’t exist.” Responding to the book’s release in 2004, a spokesman for LVMH stated that “this is ancient history…The book covers a period when it was family-run and long before it became part of LVMH. We are diverse, tolerant and all the things a modern company should be.” Another LVMH spokesman told the satirical magazine, Le Canard Enchainé, that “We don’t deny the facts, but regrettably the author has exaggerated the Vichy episode,”. That publication was the only French periodical to mention the book.
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