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UTZ, I DID IT AGAIN:<\/strong> Peter Utz, a prominent player in wrangling celebrities for major fashion houses, has returned to Dior for the second time in his career.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, the French house announced that Utz is its new global public relations director, men and women, and responsible for celebrity relations. He officially started earlier this month \u2014 and pre-empted Dior<\/a>\u2019s official confirmation with a post on his personal Instagram account, where he counts 111,000 followers \u2014 and a tumble of A-list stars dressed in the brands he represents.<\/p>\n More from WWD<\/strong><\/p>\n Utz spent much of his career working with Hedi Slimane when the French designer helmed Celine and Saint Laurent. His title at Celine, where he worked since 2018, was director of couture and events, and where he \u201cmanaged strategic client relations and the house\u2019s international events,\u201d according to a brief statement shared with WWD.<\/p>\n \u201cWith over 20 years of experience in the luxury sector in both France and the United States, he previously held key positions in brand marketing and VIP relations at Maxfield and Saint Laurent, after beginning his career in retail at Prada and Christian Dior Couture,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n It is understood Utz will work in tandem with Mathilde Favier, who directs the celebrities department for women, and Sam Maouchi, celebrity relations director for men.<\/p>\n Utz arrives at a transformational time at Dior, which earlier this year welcomed Jonathan Anderson as its creative director of women\u2019s, men\u2019s and haute couture collections.<\/p>\n The Northern Irish designer, 40, is Dior\u2019s eighth couturier, and is set to show his first women\u2019s ready-to-wear collection during Paris Fashion Week on Oct. 1 in a season strong on designer debuts.<\/p>\n Best of WWD<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for WWD’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UTZ, I DID IT AGAIN: Peter Utz, a prominent player in wrangling celebrities for major fashion houses, has returned to Dior for the second time in his career. On Wednesday, the French house announced that Utz is its new global public relations director, men and women, and responsible for celebrity relations. He officially started earlier […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2009478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[347990,367182,367181,320288,316694],"class_list":["post-2009477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-dior","tag-hedi-slimane","tag-peter-utz","tag-saint-laurent","tag-wwd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Dior-Has-a-New-Celebrity-Relations-Boss.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}