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Dilesh and Hitesh Mehta. The fashion and perfume intellectual properties were consolidated from the original firm's various family and corporate descendants into a single corporate entity. Giovanni Bedin became its principal designer after previously working for
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Edwardian corsets which were elaborately decorated with lace and feathers. The voluminous
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