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Alain Wertheimer became Chanels chairman in 1974 and in 1979, Wertheimer brought in Kitty DAlessio, a senior Vice President and Board Member at the advertising firm N.C.& K to take charge of the Chanel operation in the United States.1 In 1981, DAlessio made a pivotal decision to hire Karl Lagerfeld as the Creative Director of Chanel, despite his existing contract at Chloe that forbade him from designing ready-to-wear under the name of another house.2 After years of convincing, Lagerfeld's first couture collection for Chanel debuted in early 1983, followed by his ready-to-wear collection in the spring of 1984 after his last at Chloe

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