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Article: YVES, BERGE SAY 'BYE BYE TOM'.(Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Berge, Tom Ford)
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- WWD
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- November 5, 2003
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PARIS -- Yves Saint Laurent and his business partner, Pierre Berge, applauded Tuesday's revelation that Tom Ford and Domenico De Sole would relinquish their positions at Gucci Group in April and that, consequently, Ford would no longer design Saint Laurent after that date.
"It's for the best," said Saint Laurent in a telephone interview. "I didn't identify with those clothes. He didn't crystallize my style."
The antagonism between Saint Laurent, Berge and Ford has been well documented since Ford's YSL debut in Paris in September 2000. In that show, Ford offered a paean to YSL muse Betty Catroux, making the models over in her image. It miffed Saint ...