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Fashion Network
08-07-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
Galeries Lafayette appoints Arthur Lemoine as CEO
Arthur Lemoine has taken on a significant new challenge within French department store group Galeries Lafayette. After three years as head of products and purchasing, Lemoine has now replaced his cousin Nicolas Houzé as CEO. His appointment signals the group's intention to keep its operational running in the hands of the members of its founding family. Houzé, who was named CEO in 2013, will now focus on his role as president of the Galeries Lafayette group's executive committee, to which he was appointed last year. 'After over 10 years characterised by several transformations and challenges, Galeries Lafayette is ready to start a new chapter under the aegis of Arthur Lemoine,' said Houzé, who announced last year that the group would be investing €400 million to transform its stores by 2030. 'Arthur is extremely familiar with the challenges facing the group, and its objectives. His strategic outlook, his ability to generate team spirit and his knowledge of the fashion and retail sectors make him the ideal leader to drive our new efforts. I am convinced that he will be able to steer Galeries Lafayette along an even bolder trajectory, working closely with our staff, and I wish him every success in the pursuit of this mission,' added Houzé. Lemoine has in-depth knowledge of the group, where he has been working for the past 15 years. He was first directly involved as perfumery buyer for the BHV Marais department store, and later led the perfumery category for BHV Marais and Galeries Lafayette. He then took charge of the food category, and oversaw the introduction in the Marais district of the Eataly restaurant chain, which recently announced it is closing. Lemoine took the helm of the watches-jewellery business for the brands of the Louis Pion -Royal Quartz group in 2018, before assuming the role of head of purchasing at Galeries Lafayette. In this role, he spearheaded an assortment revamp for the luxury, designer and contemporary fashion sections within the Parisian department store's boulevard Haussmann flagship, a task for which he had many opportunities of interacting with brands and the media. Galeries Lafayette's boulevard Haussmann branch is said to have topped the €2 billion revenue mark in the group's latest fiscal year. Lemoine is a member of Galeries Lafayette's executive committee, and he runs Lafayette Anticipations, the group's corporate foundation. 'It is with profound pride and great humility that I take this new responsibility within Galeries Lafayette, succeeding Nicolas,' said Lemoine in a press release. 'For over 15 years, I have had the privilege of contributing to the development of this unique family business venture that showcases the finest creativity to the widest audience by promoting a specific vision of French art of living. I am fully aware of the responsibility I now carry, and I am committed to continuing our mission with dedication and passion, in order to promote an ambitious, audacious, and forward-looking retail experience, in France and beyond our borders,' he added. Lemoine will be in charge of a department store fleet that includes 57 branches in France, only 19 of them owned by the Galeries Lafayette group with the remaining 38 operated by franchisees. The group also has 11 branches with partners outside France, some of them already active, like those in China, or in the pipeline, as that in New Delhi, India.
Fashion Network
07-07-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
Galeries Lafayette appoints Arthur Lemoine as CEO
Arthur Lemoine has taken on a significant new challenge within French department store group Galeries Lafayette. After three years as head of products and purchasing, Lemoine has now replaced his cousin Nicolas Houzé as CEO. His appointment signals the group's intention to keep its operational running in the hands of the members of its founding family. Houzé, who was named CEO in 2013, will now focus on his role as president of the Galeries Lafayette group's executive committee, to which he was appointed last year. 'After over 10 years characterised by several transformations and challenges, Galeries Lafayette is ready to start a new chapter under the aegis of Arthur Lemoine,' said Houzé, who announced last year that the group would be investing €400 million to transform its stores by 2030. 'Arthur is extremely familiar with the challenges facing the group, and its objectives. His strategic outlook, his ability to generate team spirit and his knowledge of the fashion and retail sectors make him the ideal leader to drive our new efforts. I am convinced that he will be able to steer Galeries Lafayette along an even bolder trajectory, working closely with our staff, and I wish him every success in the pursuit of this mission,' added Houzé. Lemoine has in-depth knowledge of the group, where he has been working for the past 15 years. He was first directly involved as perfumery buyer for the BHV Marais department store, and later led the perfumery category for BHV Marais and Galeries Lafayette. He then took charge of the food category, and oversaw the introduction in the Marais district of the Eataly restaurant chain, which recently announced it is closing. Lemoine took the helm of the watches-jewellery business for the brands of the Louis Pion -Royal Quartz group in 2018, before assuming the role of head of purchasing at Galeries Lafayette. In this role, he spearheaded an assortment revamp for the luxury, designer and contemporary fashion sections within the Parisian department store's boulevard Haussmann flagship, a task for which he had many opportunities of interacting with brands and the media. Galeries Lafayette's boulevard Haussmann branch is said to have topped the €2 billion revenue mark in the group's latest fiscal year. Lemoine is a member of Galeries Lafayette's executive committee, and he runs Lafayette Anticipations, the group's corporate foundation. 'It is with profound pride and great humility that I take this new responsibility within Galeries Lafayette, succeeding Nicolas,' said Lemoine in a press release. 'For over 15 years, I have had the privilege of contributing to the development of this unique family business venture that showcases the finest creativity to the widest audience by promoting a specific vision of French art of living. I am fully aware of the responsibility I now carry, and I am committed to continuing our mission with dedication and passion, in order to promote an ambitious, audacious, and forward-looking retail experience, in France and beyond our borders,' he added. Lemoine will be in charge of a department store fleet that includes 57 branches in France, only 19 of them owned by the Galeries Lafayette group with the remaining 38 operated by franchisees. The group also has 11 branches with partners outside France, some of them already active, like those in China, or in the pipeline, as that in New Delhi, India.
Fashion Network
07-07-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
Galeries Lafayette appoints Arthur Lemoine as CEO
Arthur Lemoine has taken on a significant new challenge within French department store group Galeries Lafayette. After three years as head of products and purchasing, Lemoine has now replaced his cousin Nicolas Houzé as CEO. His appointment signals the group's intention to keep its operational running in the hands of the members of its founding family. Houzé, who was named CEO in 2013, will now focus on his role as president of the Galeries Lafayette group's executive committee, to which he was appointed last year. 'After over 10 years characterised by several transformations and challenges, Galeries Lafayette is ready to start a new chapter under the aegis of Arthur Lemoine,' said Houzé, who announced last year that the group would be investing €400 million to transform its stores by 2030. 'Arthur is extremely familiar with the challenges facing the group, and its objectives. His strategic outlook, his ability to generate team spirit and his knowledge of the fashion and retail sectors make him the ideal leader to drive our new efforts. I am convinced that he will be able to steer Galeries Lafayette along an even bolder trajectory, working closely with our staff, and I wish him every success in the pursuit of this mission,' added Houzé. Lemoine has in-depth knowledge of the group, where he has been working for the past 15 years. He was first directly involved as perfumery buyer for the BHV Marais department store, and later led the perfumery category for BHV Marais and Galeries Lafayette. He then took charge of the food category, and oversaw the introduction in the Marais district of the Eataly restaurant chain, which recently announced it is closing. Lemoine took the helm of the watches-jewellery business for the brands of the Louis Pion -Royal Quartz group in 2018, before assuming the role of head of purchasing at Galeries Lafayette. In this role, he spearheaded an assortment revamp for the luxury, designer and contemporary fashion sections within the Parisian department store's boulevard Haussmann flagship, a task for which he had many opportunities of interacting with brands and the media. Galeries Lafayette's boulevard Haussmann branch is said to have topped the €2 billion revenue mark in the group's latest fiscal year. Lemoine is a member of Galeries Lafayette's executive committee, and he runs Lafayette Anticipations, the group's corporate foundation. 'It is with profound pride and great humility that I take this new responsibility within Galeries Lafayette, succeeding Nicolas,' said Lemoine in a press release. 'For over 15 years, I have had the privilege of contributing to the development of this unique family business venture that showcases the finest creativity to the widest audience by promoting a specific vision of French art of living. I am fully aware of the responsibility I now carry, and I am committed to continuing our mission with dedication and passion, in order to promote an ambitious, audacious, and forward-looking retail experience, in France and beyond our borders,' he added. Lemoine will be in charge of a department store fleet that includes 57 branches in France, only 19 of them owned by the Galeries Lafayette group with the remaining 38 operated by franchisees. The group also has 11 branches with partners outside France, some of them already active, like those in China, or in the pipeline, as that in New Delhi, India.
Fashion Network
04-07-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
Galeries Lafayette Haussmann enjoys rapid growth, amid store revamp and tourism boom
Business at Galeries Lafayette 's famed Boulevard Haussmann flagship is booming this year, amid a huge flood of tourists into the nation's capital, and a significantly refreshed retail offer. In the first half of 2025, the flagship achieved double-digit sales growth, outperforming the estimated 9% increase in tourists visiting France during the same period. Annually, some 37 million people visit the handsome Art Nouveau store, Europe's largest – 60% of them non-French, a remarkable figure when one considers that 89 million people visited France in 2024. The recent increase in traffic and business has also been driven by a substantial revamp of key floors in this luxury bazaar. 'We have worked hard on improving the customer experience and offer and consumers have reacted very positively,' stressed Guillaume Houzé, board member and director of image, over a summer lunch Thursday. Specifically, the store has expanded its space for prominent French runway brands such as Jacquemus, Lemaire and AMI, particularly in their menswear department, and has focused even more attention on their major league brands on the ground floor. Not surprisingly, the store's top-selling brands are Louis Vuitton and Chanel. In an ongoing revamp of the huge store, private salons have been added to key brands' shop-in-shops at Haussmann. 'The goal is to make the customer experience comparable to a Vuitton flagship. Right now, we believe that Vuitton's store in Galeries Lafayette Haussmann is among the top five stores of Vuitton worldwide,' noted Houzé, great-great-grandson of the store's founder Théophile Bader, who opened the debut store in 1894. Under buying director and board member Arthur Lemoine, the store has also expanded the presence of leading international labels, recently opening a striking Phoebe Philo boutique, adding Bottega Veneta and creating a 110-square-meter store for Paris' favorite new American label, The Row. It has also added the only French shop-in-shop of LVMH marque Patou, which will stage its next show this Sunday in Paris. Meanwhile, the boutique of Courrèges – thanks to the direction of the brilliant Franco-Belgian designer Nicolas Di Felice – has expanded from 20 square meters to 110 square meters. 'We want to nourish that difference in our offer, with more directional fashion, compared to other places in Paris,' explained Lemoine at a suitably Lucullan lunch in Galeries Lafayette's VIP salon. Courgette flowers stuffed in crunchy vegetables served on Andalusian gazpacho, followed by cumin-inflected grilled sea bream, washed down by a rare white Bordeaux, Smith-Haute-Lafitte. The fine menu complements the sophisticated mode available in this giant retailing complex. Familiar fixtures at major runway shows, the duo of Houzé and Lemoine are very excited about the recent debut show of Jonathan Anderson for Dior, where they sat front row. 'Personally, I thought it was formidable! We already have three Dior men's spaces, including for shoes and fashion. And cannot wait to get Jonathan's ideas for Dior in here in early January,' enthused Lemoine. A tour of the main building, or buildings – there are four large, interconnected spaces at Galeries Lafayette Haussmann, including a beautiful Art Nouveau structure topped by a glass cupola – underlined how chock-a-block they are this summer. After a couple of years where the space slowly emerged from the Covid pandemic, it is now packed, with lines outside hot brands' spaces. 'Do you know, the Christmas before Saturday, over 300,000 visited Galeries Lafayette Haussmann, which is pretty special,' marveled Lemoine, who is also gradually renewing its beauty, scent and wellness offer, even if Haussmann already has the largest beauty space in Europe. The growing traffic means that the famed flagship alone will break €2 billion in turnover in 2025, impressive numbers for a store with a total retail space of 70,000 square meters. Breaking down revenue by key categories, women's ready-to-wear and men's ready-to-wear each count for 20% of sales; leather goods and bags for 20%; watches for 10%; beauty for 5%; while gifting, books, home, tabletop and restaurants make up the final 25%. Internationally, this family-owned French institution is not resting on its laurels. Galeries Lafayette already has six large department store flagships outside of France, spreading from the Gulf to Jakarta to Shanghai. Next up, a debut store in Mumbai, where work has already begun inside an architecturally distinguished Victoria Gothic building near the central city zone of the Maidans. 'Most of the property like that is owned by the municipality, making alterations very complicated. But our building is privately owned, so we can make the sort of changes to create an exciting store,' enthused Houzé. Galeries Lafayette Mumbai, with 7,000 square meters of shopping space, will open at the end of 2026. One suspects Théophile Bader, whose bust in the VIP salon looks out at the rooftops of Paris to the July sun shining on Sacré-Cœur on Montmartre, would have been pleased.
Fashion Network
04-07-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
Galeries Lafayette Haussmann enjoys rapid growth, amid store revamp and tourism boom
Business at Galeries Lafayette 's famed Boulevard Haussmann flagship is booming this year, amid a huge flood of tourists into the nation's capital, and a significantly refreshed retail offer. In the first half of 2025, the flagship achieved double-digit sales growth, outperforming the estimated 9% increase in tourists visiting France during the same period. Annually, some 37 million people visit the handsome Art Nouveau store, Europe's largest – 60% of them non-French, a remarkable figure when one considers that 89 million people visited France in 2024. The recent increase in traffic and business has also been driven by a substantial revamp of key floors in this luxury bazaar. 'We have worked hard on improving the customer experience and offer and consumers have reacted very positively,' stressed Guillaume Houzé, board member and director of image, over a summer lunch Thursday. Specifically, the store has expanded its space for prominent French runway brands such as Jacquemus, Lemaire and AMI, particularly in their menswear department, and has focused even more attention on their major league brands on the ground floor. Not surprisingly, the store's top-selling brands are Louis Vuitton and Chanel. In an ongoing revamp of the huge store, private salons have been added to key brands' shop-in-shops at Haussmann. 'The goal is to make the customer experience comparable to a Vuitton flagship. Right now, we believe that Vuitton's store in Galeries Lafayette Haussmann is among the top five stores of Vuitton worldwide,' noted Houzé, great-great-grandson of the store's founder Théophile Bader, who opened the debut store in 1894. Under buying director and board member Arthur Lemoine, the store has also expanded the presence of leading international labels, recently opening a striking Phoebe Philo boutique, adding Bottega Veneta and creating a 110-square-meter store for Paris' favorite new American label, The Row. It has also added the only French shop-in-shop of LVMH marque Patou, which will stage its next show this Sunday in Paris. Meanwhile, the boutique of Courrèges – thanks to the direction of the brilliant Franco-Belgian designer Nicolas Di Felice – has expanded from 20 square meters to 110 square meters. 'We want to nourish that difference in our offer, with more directional fashion, compared to other places in Paris,' explained Lemoine at a suitably Lucullan lunch in Galeries Lafayette's VIP salon. Courgette flowers stuffed in crunchy vegetables served on Andalusian gazpacho, followed by cumin-inflected grilled sea bream, washed down by a rare white Bordeaux, Smith-Haute-Lafitte. The fine menu complements the sophisticated mode available in this giant retailing complex. Familiar fixtures at major runway shows, the duo of Houzé and Lemoine are very excited about the recent debut show of Jonathan Anderson for Dior, where they sat front row. 'Personally, I thought it was formidable! We already have three Dior men's spaces, including for shoes and fashion. And cannot wait to get Jonathan's ideas for Dior in here in early January,' enthused Lemoine. A tour of the main building, or buildings – there are four large, interconnected spaces at Galeries Lafayette Haussmann, including a beautiful Art Nouveau structure topped by a glass cupola – underlined how chock-a-block they are this summer. After a couple of years where the space slowly emerged from the Covid pandemic, it is now packed, with lines outside hot brands' spaces. 'Do you know, the Christmas before Saturday, over 300,000 visited Galeries Lafayette Haussmann, which is pretty special,' marveled Lemoine, who is also gradually renewing its beauty, scent and wellness offer, even if Haussmann already has the largest beauty space in Europe. The growing traffic means that the famed flagship alone will break €2 billion in turnover in 2025, impressive numbers for a store with a total retail space of 70,000 square meters. Breaking down revenue by key categories, women's ready-to-wear and men's ready-to-wear each count for 20% of sales; leather goods and bags for 20%; watches for 10%; beauty for 5%; while gifting, books, home, tabletop and restaurants make up the final 25%. Internationally, this family-owned French institution is not resting on its laurels. Galeries Lafayette already has six large department store flagships outside of France, spreading from the Gulf to Jakarta to Shanghai. Next up, a debut store in Mumbai, where work has already begun inside an architecturally distinguished Victoria Gothic building near the central city zone of the Maidans. 'Most of the property like that is owned by the municipality, making alterations very complicated. But our building is privately owned, so we can make the sort of changes to create an exciting store,' enthused Houzé. Galeries Lafayette Mumbai, with 7,000 square meters of shopping space, will open at the end of 2026. One suspects Théophile Bader, whose bust in the VIP salon looks out at the rooftops of Paris to the July sun shining on Sacré-Cœur on Montmartre, would have been pleased.
