On September 21, 2020, Natalia Vodianova and Antoine Arnault married in a civil ceremony in Paris, announced to the public through a single word, “OUI!” and one image that carried the whole moment.
On September 21, 2020, Natalia Vodianova and Antoine Arnault married in a civil ceremony in Paris, announced to the public through a single word, “OUI!” and one image that carried the whole moment.
September 21, 2025
On September 21, 2020, Natalia Vodianova and Antoine Arnault married in a civil ceremony in Paris, announced to the public through a single word, “OUI!” and one image that carried the whole moment.
They first crossed paths in 2008 on the set of a Louis Vuitton campaign. Arnault, then Louis Vuitton’s head of communications, admitted he was instantly struck, while Vodianova barely registered it at the time. They ran into each other over the following years, but the relationship truly began in 2011, after Arnault saw news of Vodianova’s divorce and asked her out. They chose a low key first meeting at his apartment to avoid press attention, both shy enough that the night stayed disarmingly innocent.
Natalia Vodianova represents fashion’s public engine at its highest altitude. A supermodel functions like a global interface, translating luxury into faces, feelings, and cultural memory. Campaigns gain gravity through her presence. Editorials gain narrative through her ability to hold character inside a still frame. Yet her authority has long extended past image. In 2004, she founded the Naked Heart Foundation, building a parallel legacy rooted in philanthropy and public impact, a reminder that modern fashion icons increasingly carry institutional work alongside runway mythology.
Antoine Arnault represents the other half of fashion power: the executive architecture that scales desire into a functioning empire. He has held senior roles across the LVMH ecosystem, including responsibilities tied to communications, image, and environment, alongside leadership positions connected to houses such as Berluti and Loro Piana. Where a model brings fashion to the public, an executive builds the conditions that keep fashion persuasive, protected, and profitable: brand equity, narrative control, distribution strength, partnerships, and long range reputation.
Natalia Vodianova wore Ulyana Sergeenko Couture, a choice repeatedly noted in coverage because it signaled personal authorship and her Slavic cultural continuity.
In the end, it is a love story built from small collisions and quiet choices, a rare kind that grows steadily until it feels like it was always meant to find its way home.
