LVMH boss Bernard Arnault leads tributes after Dior PR chief Mathilde Favier and award-winning producer Nicolas Altmayer die in crash
PARIS, Aug 19 — Award-winning French film producer Nicolas Altmayer and Dior PR head Mathilde Favier were killed i...
French luxury fashion brand Dior and its parent company LVMH mourned the deaths of two esteemed industry professionals killed in a car accident in western France on Monday. Mathilde Favier, Dior's Public Relations head at 57 years old, and Nicolas Altmayer, the 61-year-old film producer behind the OSS 117 series and Brice de Nice, were both killed when their vehicle collided with an oncoming truck while overtaking another car.
Favier had devoted years of her life to Dior, while Altmayer received the prestigious Daniel Toscan du Plantier Prize for Best French Producer of the Year in 2017 for his work with Mandarin & Compagnie. Oscar-winning French actor Jean Dujardin, who starred in the OSS 117 movies, expressed his devastation on social media, saying "Nicolas, Mathilde, you loved each other, we loved you.
Immense sadness and shock. My thoughts are with your families." France's Culture Minister Catherine Pegard praised Altmayer as a "producer with a keen eye, capable of bringing together popular comedy and auteur ambition with the same accuracy," emphasizing that Favier embodied "another form of French greatness: that of fashion and luxury."
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