U.S. President Donald Trump visited the new Louis Vuitton factory in Alvarado, Texas on Thursday. AFP via Getty ImagesTopline: Nicolas Ghesquiere, creative director of Louis Vuitton, branded Donald Trump a “joke,” just days after the U.S. president visited the fashion company’s new leather workshop in Texas. I am a fashion designer refusing this association #trumpisajoke #homophobia.”It comes after Trump visited the company’s new leather workshop in Johnson County, Texas, on Thursday. Louis Vuitton and its parent company LVMH have not responded to Ghesquiere’s comment. Key background: Donald Trump joined Arnault to cut the ribbon on the new Louis Vuitton leather workshop in Alvarado, Texas, on Thursday, but you wouldn’t know that from any of the Louis Vuitton or LVMH’s Instagram.

Source: Forbes October 21, 2019 09:45 UTC