PARIS — LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton on Wednesday celebrated its inaugural Life 360 Awards, recognizing 13 standout initiatives from within the group to highlight its company-wide transformation with a splashy ceremony at its Avenue Montaigne headquarters.
While previous events tipped programs implemented by LVMH’s retail stores, the expanded awards encompassed the group’s entire operations, including sourcing, supply chain, production, logistics, packaging and training.
“I’m particularly delighted to be here in the face of an increasingly demanding economic and political environment and to have the opportunity to share these precious moments, which are essential for maintaining our collective motivation and encouraging a sense of unity and shared purpose,” said LVMH director of image and environment Antoine Arnault. “These gatherings serve as a vital source of encouragement, allowing us to reaffirm our commitment to our goals and reinforce the bonds that tie us together as a team.
“We are sourcing our materials differently than we did five years ago, paying much greater attention to the impact on nature,” he added.
“This is proof we are in a deep transformation,” director of environmental development Hélène Valade told WWD. “We are limiting the environmental impact of our manufacturing operations, inventing new packaging solutions, new products and new customer experiences.”
The awards, which attracted 187 applications from 41 sectors, signal LVMH’s increasing commitment to embed sustainability as a core driver of innovation, governance and financial decision-making.
A 15-person jury headed by Arnault — which included chief financial officer Cecile Cabanis, operations director Mohamed Marfouk, chief human resources officer Maud Alvarez-Pereyre, as well as Valade, among others — selected the winners.
The awards took place on the same day that LVMH was again awarded Triple A status by the independent environmental disclosure ratings group CDP.
Since launching Life 360 in 2019, LVMH has achieved a 55 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions across Scopes 1 and 2, which mark direct emissions and emissions from purchased energy, respectively. That puts the luxury group ahead of its 2026 targets.
During the evening, executives revealed the group’s carbon emissions are 7.5 million tons a year, and that it uses 32.3 million square feet of leather a year. On stage, Tiffany & Co. director of global sustainability and philanthropy Annika Dubrall revealed that the company will invest in a new community solar project in Botswana, intended to provide more than 1,000 people with reliable electricity and fresh water.
Life 360 Awards 2025
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Valade said the company’s progress is due to sustainability being integrated across business functions.
With maisons spearheading initiatives, the awards underline the company’s efforts to “manage risks linked to consequences of climate change on our activities, and also to create value for our employees,” she said. “Sustainability is no longer corporate. It is now embedded in our products.”
Valade highlighted that a key pillar of this strategy is the closer collaboration between the environment and finance teams. In September, she convened a group-wide forum bringing together chief sustainability and chief financial officers from LVMH’s various brands to establish a baseline for decision making processes.
“This is very important to go further,” Valade said. “We created a task force between finance and environment, working notably on how to introduce environmental indicators into decision-making, particularly in the validation of [capital expenditures].”
The awards also demonstrate LVMH’s commitment to collaboration — a sometimes-challenging task.
“It was not easy, because some maisons are competitors,” Valade noted. However, the group is focusing on finding synergies, such as the combined effort between Christian Dior Couture, Louis Vuitton and Rimowa titled “One Route.”
In the U.S., the maisons pool transport to reduce carbon emissions. The three maisons were collectively honored for this program.
The awards themselves span a diverse range of projects across the group’s pillars of biodiversity, climate, integration and training, traceability and transparency, circularity and eco-design, as well as special recognition for maisons working together.
Honors included Louis Vuitton’s regenerative agriculture program aimed at restoring biodiversity and reducing leather’s carbon footprint; Hennessy’s comprehensive water management strategy; Tiffany & Co.’s solar panel use to reduce greenhouse emissions at manufacturing sites, and Moët Hennessy’s optimized logistics network, which has halved transport-related carbon emissions since 2019.
Additionally, Celine’s integration of environmental, social and governance criteria into its executive performance evaluations; Guerlain’s bee-focused educational programs in partnership with UNESCO; Dior’s raw material traceability system, and Bulgari’s AI-powered digital passport for jewelry traceability were also honored.
Dior Parfum’s plastics phase-out strategy and Louis Vuitton’s deadstock reuse “Re-Source” program, as well as Sephora’s cross-maison “Sampling Library,” rounded out the honorees.
Valade emphasized that Wednesday’s awards are not the end goal, with the journey continuing. In 2026, she will turn the group’s focus to accelerating progress on Scope 3 emissions and continued efforts to integrate sustainability and financial decision-making.
The group opened up its Life 360 Academy to its partners, with master classes on how to support environmental transition, and had 400 suppliers participate in climate-focused lessons earlier this year.
Suppliers are grouped in Scope 3, which encompasses indirect emissions and accounts for 97 percent of LVMH’s carbon footprint, she said. “It is very helpful to reduce these Scopes. We decided to open Life Academy to our suppliers because they haven’t the time to have this kind of training.”
The next master class, focused on traceability, is scheduled for March.
“The Life 360 Awards illustrate how our maisons are advancing the group’s environmental roadmap,” Valade concluded. “This collective momentum confirms that these issues are at the heart of our strategy.”
