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"   Raf Simons after Saturday&amp;#039;s Jil Sander show. Photo: Getty Images  Three months ago, Raf Simons was allegedly   &amp;quot; target=&amp;quot;_blank&amp;quot;&amp;amp;gt;on his way to YSL and Marc Jacobs was readying to sign on the dotted line of a major Dior contract. Now, Marc&amp;#039;s staying put at Louis Vuitton and it sounds like Simons will make the move to Dior. In October, Dior&amp;#039;s CEO Sidney Toledano told Vanessa Friedman at the Financial Times that he knew they&amp;#039;d have to appoint a Creative Director for the house before the year&amp;#039;s end\u2014less than three weeks away. Today, WWD reports that LVMH is working out the final details of a contract with Simons. He&amp;#039;ll have to dissolve his recently extended contract with Jil Sander first, and work out a start date. Neither Dior or Simons has commented, but it&amp;#039;s a partnership the fashion world would love to see. Simons&amp;#039; modernism and couture-like skills would be a perfect match for (and balance with) the history of the house of Dior. Hopefully today&amp;#039;s news leak doesn&amp;#039;t get in the way of an agreement. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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