How the Dumas family, heirs to the $95 billion Hermès fortune, turned a leather store into a luxury empire and became one of the wealthiest families in the world
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There are dozens of heirs to the Hermès fortune, but two cousins, Pierre-Alexis and Axel Dumas, are at the top of the ultra-luxurious Parisian fashion house.
Bloomberg estimates put the Dumas family fortune at $ billion, making it one of the richest families in the world.
It's one of just a handful of luxury fashion businesses controlled by a single family.
Read on to find out how the famous leather goods company got its start and minted generations of billionaires.
Thierry Hermès, a harness-maker by trade, opened his first shop in Paris in