of jewellery design and launched her first collection "Nouvelle Joaillerie." In 1984, Perrin founded the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain to bring Cartier into the twenty-first century, by forming an association with living artists. In 1986, the French Ministry for Culture appointed Perrin head of the "Mission sur le mécénat d'entreprise" (a commission to study business patronage of the arts). Two years later, Cartier gained a majority holding in Piaget and Baume & Mercier. From 1989 to 1990, the Musée du Petit Palais staged an exhibition of the Cartier collection, "L'Art de Cartier." Perrin founded an international committee in 1991, Comité International de la Haute Horlogerie, to organize its first salon, held on 15 April 1991; this has become an annual meeting place in Geneva for professionals in this field. The next year, the second exhibition of "L'Art de Cartier" was held at the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. In 1993, the "Vendôme Luxury Group" was formed as an umbrella company to combine Cartier, Dunhill, Montblanc, Piaget, Baume & Mercier, Karl Lagerfeld, Chloé, Sulka, Hackett, and Seeger. In 1994, the Cartier Foundation moved to the Rive Gauche and opened headquarters in a building designed for it by Jean Nouvel. The next year, a major exhibition of the Cartier Antique Collection was held in Asia. In 1996, the Lausanne Hermitage Foundation in Switzerland exhibited "Splendours of the Jewellery", presenting a hundred and fifty years of products by Cartier. In 2012, Cartier was owned, through Richemont, by the South African Rupert family, and Elle Pagels, a 24-year-old granddaughter of Pierre Cartier. Managing directors Laurent E. Feniou - (25 March 2013 – present). Rupert J. Brooks - (16 December 2015 – present). Francois M. J. R. Le Troquer - (1 September 2010 – 28 March 2013). Bernard M. Fornas - (21 January 2003 – 16 December 2015). Guy J. Leymarie - (2 September 2002 – 28 October 2002). Grieg O. Catto - (2 April – present). Denys E. Pasche - (2 April 2002 – 17 July 2002). David W. Merriman - (2 April 2002 – 17 July 2002). Richard P. Lepeu - (1 November 2000 – 1 April 2002). Sophie Cagnard - (1 November 2000 – 1 April 2002). Gerard S. Djaoui - (12 June 1997 – 1 April 2002). Francois Meffre - (11 June 1993 – 28 September 2000). Richard N. Thornby - (11 June 1993 – 7 October 1996). Luigi Blank