French textile industrialist and horse racing magnate who backed Christian Dior's founding in 1946 and built one of France's largest industrial empires — which went bankrupt in the 1970s, creating the distressed asset that Arnault acquired.
Provided the initial capital for Christian Dior's couture house — making the New Look possible — and built a French textile empire whose eventual bankruptcy created the acquisition opportunity through which Bernard Arnault entered luxury.
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