Marc Jacobs is spread to be the new Creative Director at Christian Dior.

LVMH head Bernard Arnault has been in talks with Jacobs, currently designer for two eponymous lines as well as Louis Vuitton, about filling the top spot at Christian Dior. Marc Jacobs has been working for LVMH for 14 years.

Dior has been without a creative director since LVMH fired designer John Galliano in March after a video surfaced of him making anti-Semitic comments at a Parisian bar.

The question of who will take the top job at Dior has remained since Galliano was gone. Meetings between Dior representatives from LVMH, the luxury conglomerate that owns the Christian Dior label as well as Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs and a host of other top brands, and Jacobs’ legal representatives are set to take place this week in Paris.

In turn if Marc Jacobs becomes the new Dior creative director, he could be replaced by Phoebe Philo, the creative head at Celine, another component of the French luxury conglomerate.

But it also had contestants as unlikely as Alexander Wang, Christian Lacriox and Keren Craig of Marchesa thrown into the mix, not to mention the much more likely Riccardo Tisci.

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