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Twenty Three Year Old Briton to Make Chicks Tick for UngaroFrance's prestigious luxury fashion house Emanuel Ungaro is bringing in a 23-year-old Colombian-born Briton who works in the US to freshen up its women's collections, the company's chief executive said Friday.
Esteban Cortazar "knows what makes a chick tick and that's important in our business," the head of the Paris house, Mounir Moufarrige, told AFP.
The new designer is a Bogota-born British national who moved to the US at the age of 11 and trotted out his first collection under his name in New York in 2003.
Since founder-couturier Ungaro departed in 2005, the company has seen three successive designers, the last being Norwegian Peter Dundas, who was waved off last July with Moufarrige saying at the time the venerable house "needs shock therapy."
Asked whether Cortazar had the age and experience needed to give the venerable 40-year label a shot in the arm, Moufarrige cited Facebook founder Mark Zucherberg's 22 years and billion-dollar success story.
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