PARIS, Aug 19 \u2014 Award-winning French film producer Nicolas Altmayer and Dior PR head Mathilde Favier were killed in a car accident in western France, local authorities said yesterday.<\/p>\n
The couple\u2019s car collided with an oncoming truck while overtaking another vehicle on Monday afternoon, said Nicolas Leclainche, the deputy public prosecutor in Niort in the Deux-Sevres department.<\/p>\n
Favier, 57, was head of public relations for luxury fashion brand Dior.<\/p>\n
Altmayer, a 61-year-old film producer, headed the company Mandarin & Compagnie with his brother Eric.<\/p>\n
The brothers produced the 1950s-style spy spoof OSS 117\u00a0series and cult comedy Brice de Nice, as well as a thriller based on former French president Nicolas Sarkozy\u2019s rise to power, Conquest.<\/p>\n
In 2017, Altmayer received, together with his brother, the Daniel Toscan du Plantier Prize for the best French producer of the year given by France\u2019s equivalent of the Academy Awards.<\/p>\n
Tributes poured in for the couple from across entertainment, luxury and politics.<\/p>\n
\u201cNicolas, Mathilde, you loved each other, we loved you. Immense sadness and shock. My thoughts are with your families,\u201d Oscar-winning French actor Jean Dujardin, who starred in the OSS 117\u00a0movies said on social media.<\/p>\n
France\u2019s Culture Minister Catherine Pegard paid tribute to Altmayer as a \u201cproducer with a keen eye, capable of bringing together popular comedy and auteur ambition with the same accuracy\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy his side, Mathilde Favier embodied another form of French greatness: that of fashion and luxury,\u201d the minister added in a statement.<\/p>\n
Bernard Arnault, CEO of conglomerate LVMH, which owns Dior, honoured Favier on the brand\u2019s Instagram account saying she \u201cdevoted so many years of her life to putting her passion, energy and talent at the service of Dior\u201d. \u2014 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS, Aug 19 \u2014 Award-winning French film producer Nicolas Altmayer and Dior PR head Mathilde Favier were killed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12700],"tags":[41480,3551,41482,4955,41358,12701,41479,41481],"class_list":["post-66931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lvmh","tag-deux-sevres","tag-dior","tag-jean-dujardin","tag-lvmh","tag-mathilde-favier","tag-moet-hennessy-louis-vuitton","tag-nicolas-altmayer","tag-oss-117"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66931","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=66931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}