Whether it’s the founders, designers, CEOs or heirs, the wealthiest people in the fashion industry own most of the brands we aim for. In a multi-million dollar fashion industry, more and more billionaires are being made either by owning a significant portion of the world’s most famous brands, or by those who go gold by designing clothes that they want to wear more every day than any other.
Here are the 10 richest fashion billionaires in the world.
|
Rank |
First and last name
|
net worth |
|
one.
|
Bernard Arnault |
$173 billion
|
|
2. |
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers
|
$92.2 billion |
|
3.
|
Amancio Ortega |
$81.7 billion
|
|
4. |
François Pinault
|
$56.8 billion |
|
5.
|
Phil Knight |
$51.6 billion
|
|
6. |
Alain and Gerard Wertheimer
|
$45.6 billion |
|
7.
|
Tadashi Yanai |
$38.9 billion
|
|
eight. |
Leonard Lauder
|
$31.0 billion |
|
9.
|
Leonardo Del Vecchio |
$28.7 billion
|
|
10 |
Stefan Persson
|
$25.1 billion |