Who makes the drapery and who the cut, who polishes the jewels and who makes knitwear, the master watchmakers, then chefs, confectioners and who assembles shoes, but also the sales assistants. The crafts of excellence in the conception of LVMH, the largest luxury group, are multifaceted, also by virtue of the multifaceted nature of its 75 houses and brands. To protect their know-how, and train the young talents who will pass it on, the group founded in 2014 the Institut des Métiers d’Excellence in France, a training program that involves many of its houses, extended in 2016 to Switzerland and since 2017 also present in Italy, and which directly involves companies, but also schools and institutes. With very important results also in terms of professional integration: since 2014 over a thousand young people have followed the courses of the IME and 78% of them immediately continued their path in the world of work.
The program has recently undergone a new acceleration, with the launch of the “We for Me” agreement (where Me is also the acronym of Métiers d’Excellence), with which the 75 LVMH maison are committed to making the value known of 200 professions to a wider audience, with the dual objective of attracting young people to them and raising awareness among institutions on the importance of supporting and enhancing these profiles.
Loading…
The fashion houses, therefore, will work on several fronts: accelerate the “Excellent!” both in France and abroad to provide young people with a new perspective on these professions and encourage them to choose them; launch a program for the recognition and enhancement of internal talents, “Les virtuoses Lvmh”, to represent savoir-faire and facilitate its transmission; a new program for the development of the skills of internal talents and the acceleration of the innovations of the Métiers d’Excellence, and new collaborations to highlight and support the skills external to the group, but which are nevertheless part of its cultural heritage. This year, moreover, the entire community of Lvmh’s Métiers d’Excellence will be highlighted for the first time during an event to be held in Paris on October 19 and in Florence on November 8.
In Italy, the Métiers d’Excellence program is also developed in the Massoli Academy of Haute Sartoria in Casperia, in the province of Rieti, in the Académie du Savoir-Faire Berluti x Centoform, in Galbanella, in the province of Ferrara, the Accademia dei Mestieri Loro Piana, and in collaboration with universities such as Cà Foscari in Venice and institutes such as the Setificio Foundation, Polimoda and the Polytechnic Shoe Industry of Vigonza, in the province of Padua.
In recent weeks the group has invested again in Italian fashion by taking over 60% of Etro, through the L-Catterton fund, for 500 million euros.