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Mathilde Favier, Dior PR chief, dies at 57 in car crash

Published 19 August 2026

Mathilde Favier, the influential director of public relations for Christian Dior Couture, died on Monday, August 17, 2026, in a car accident in western France that also killed her partner, film producer Nicolas Altmayer. She was 57. Altmayer was 61.

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