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Article: YVES CARCELLE NAMED HEAD OF LACROIX.
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- WWD
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- December 8, 1999
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PARIS -- LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault keeps saying he plans to revive the house of Christian Lacroix and on Tuesday he sent in his SWAT team.
Yves Carcelle, one of the key players within LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton -- currently the president of Louis Vuitton and of the entire fashion and leather goods division of LVMH -- will add the presidency of Lacroix to his responsibilities. Carcelle is succeeding Serge Marx, marking just one of many changes expected in the coming months at the couture house, which Arnault founded in 1987.
At Lacroix, Carcelle is something of a comeback kid. He actually was Lacroix president from November 1989 to April ...