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On my first day at Puck, a juicy tip landed in my inbox from a longtime fashion executive whom I’ve known for more than a decade. “But what about all the talk or is it confirmed, of Jonathan Anderson going to Louis Vuitton to replace Nicolas [Ghesquière] who goes to Chanel… to take over from Virginie [Viard]…?” I responded with news of what I had heard in Paris just a few weeks earlier: Still-new Louis Vuitton C.E.O. Pietro Beccari was happy for now to continue working with Ghesquière, who has been leading women’s at the LVMH-owned fashion house for nearly a decade, despite persistent rumors that the designer is on his way out. Beccari has plenty to manage with the arrival of Pharrell and the launch of his first men’s collection this June, and Ghesquière signed a contract not too long ago. So… just rumors.