Kanye West believed LVMH’s chief offered him the Louis Vuitton role and retracted it.

Evidence

One person was very upset by all this: Abloh’s former employer, Kanye West. In the wake of the Abloh appointment, Kanye felt “a lot of pain and jealousy.” A self-proclaimed “Louis Vuitton Don” since his debut album in 2004, West believed the position should have been his, especially with his massive success at Yeezy. He claimed that Bernard Arnault, LVMH’s chairman, had offered him the role and then retracted it. Hiring West at the height of his MAGA phase, however, posed obvious risks. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 765