Dior executive Mathilde Favier killed alongside her movie producer partner Nicolas Altmayer in head-on car crash

A Dior executive and her film producer partner were killed in a head-on car crash in France.Mathilde Favier, 57, and beloved French movie producer Nicolas Altmayer, 61, died in the collision near the commune of Airvault in western France on Monday afternoon, French outlet La Figaro reported.Favier and Altmayer’s Austin Mini car “hit a heavy goods vehicle traveling in the opposite direction while they were overtaking another vehicle,” Nicolas Leclainche, the Niort deputy prosecutor, said as he confirmed a manslaughter investigation had been launched.The couple was heading to Île de Ré – an island known for its salt marshes, located off the west coast of France, where Favier had a home.Favier, a mother of two, was once labeled the “best connected woman in Paris” by the Times of London, and she previously worked for Prada, Chanel and Glamour magazine before joining Dior in 2011.“Mathilde loved life with a passion,” Delphine Arnault, the CEO and chairperson of Christian Dior Couture, said in a statement shared Tuesday.“With the passing of Mathilde, Dior 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.”Favier “made an incredible contribution to the reputation of Christian Dior Couture through her commitment and elegance,” the fashion house said.“She was an exceptional woman whose communicative joy, talent and loyalty were exemplary.”Favier shared her adult kids, 27-year-old Héloïse and 25-year-old Carlo, with the billionaire Robert Agostinelli, who co-founded the private equity firm Rhône Group.“Maman, my heart aches and my brain is foggy,” Carlo wrote on social media, starting his message with the French word for mom.“None of this makes sense, and I struggl...