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| | Agenda Inc. Live Feed - Dior - the next generation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | Today, Dior is the fashion star in the firmament of luxury brands that make up his vast LVMH conglomerate - and still the only couture name to match the global brand recognition of Nike, McDonald’s, Pepsi and Coca-Cola. |
 | | For, buoyed by the rich artistic legacy of its founder, the house survived Dior’s death in 1957 - even though the design mantle was quickly wrestled from Dior’s own protege, Yves Saint Laurent, and passed to Marc Bohan. |
 | | More recently, Arnault has dropped two bombshells: the displacement of Bohan in 1987 by Gianfranco Ferre, and Ferre’s own displacement less than nine years later. |
| news.agendainc.com /mt-agenda/content/archives/2005/01/adoring_dior.html (285 words) |
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