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The house went into a gradual decline at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1933 an agricultural engineer with no experience in leather goods, Franz
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Delvaux creates two collections per year, Spring-Summer and Autumn-Winter. Each collection sees the introduction of new materials and new colors.
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Delvaux operates about 10 stores in
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progressively introduced a new concept for the time, the creation of seasonal collections, as is still done to this day.
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