# @puckdotnews on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DIe5svNT98b
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/73247067-puckdotnews-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-04-15T21:47:17.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Puck (@puckdotnews) — https://gondola.cc/puckdotnews

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“I’ve received many, many notes regarding the Reuters report about the challenges at Louis Vuitton’s Alvarado, Texas, production facility,” writes Puck’s Lauren Sherman about one of LV’s reportedly worst-performing factories. “The problem is not that Louis Vuitton and LVMH have failed to build a robust business in Alvarado, but rather that they hyped the opening of the factory for P.R. purposes.”⁠
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In 2019, LVMH chairman and C.E.O. Bernard Arnault, then-Louis Vuitton C.E.O. Michael Burke, and Alexandre Arnault all showed up for a ribbon-cutting ceremony with then-President Trump, and Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. ⁠
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“There are definitely people in Arnault’s inner circle who thought the trip was a bad idea,” Lauren continues. “Perhaps it was worth it to appease Trump, but it just made people aware that the factory existed in the first place. The two (and I believe, at one time, three) facilities in California have been operating for decades without anyone noticing. Talk about quiet luxury.”⁠
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Read Lauren’s full dispatch, at the link in bio.⁠
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Photo: Michael Buckner/WWD/Penske Media/Getty Images⁠
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#LVMH #Arnault #Texas #Factory #Manufacturing #Luxury

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lvmh, arnault, luxury, texas, manufacturing, factory

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