{"id":66624,"date":"2026-08-18T12:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/66624\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:41:08","slug":"dior-pr-director-mathilde-favier-dies-at-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/66624\/","title":{"rendered":"Dior PR Director Mathilde Favier Dies at 56"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/tag\/dior\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dior\" data-tag=\"dior\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dior<\/a> on Tuesday revealed the \u201caccidental death\u201d of Mathilde Favier, one of its longtime public relations executives, lauding her as \u201can exceptional woman whose communicative joy, talent and loyalty were exemplary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAccording to news reports, Favier perished in a car accident Monday that also claimed her companion, French film producer Nicolas Altmayer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI was deeply saddened to learn of the tragic and sudden passing of Mathilde Favier, who devoted so many years to putting her passion, energy and talent at the service of the house of <a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/fashion-news\/fashion-scoops\/fashionphile-new-york-soho-pop-up-designer-deals-1239094784\/\" id=\"related_article_link_dior\" data-tag=\"dior\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dior<\/a>,\u201d Bernard Arnault, chairman and chief executive officer of Dior\u2019s parent LVMH, was quoted as saying on Dior\u2019s official Instagram account. \u201cMy heartfelt condolences go to her family and loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cMathilde loved life with a passion,\u201d said Delphine Arnault, chairman and chief executive officer of Christian Dior Couture. \u201cDior is losing an incredible professional, and I have lost a loyal friend. Her optimism and courage commanded admiration. We will sorely miss her smile and her talent. I feel deeply saddened today; my thoughts are very much with her children, her mother, her sisters, her family, her many friends and her team she loved so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDuring her recent work as international PR director for Dior women, Favier oversaw VIP relations, putting her on first-name terms with everyone from Rihanna to Jennifer Lawrence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tShe was also a well-known figure on social media, her fame propelled by her hit 2024 coffee-table book \u201cLiving Beautifully in Paris.\u201d Her account boasts 242,000 followers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe half-sister of Victoire de Castellane, creative director of Dior jewelry, Favier has moved in fashion circles since her teens, when her uncle Gilles Dufour got her an internship at Chanel, where he worked alongside Karl Lagerfeld.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dior on Tuesday revealed the \u201caccidental death\u201d of Mathilde Favier, one of its longtime public relations executives, lauding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12728],"tags":[2793,3551,4955],"class_list":["post-66624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-christian-dior","tag-christian-dior","tag-dior","tag-lvmh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}