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Article: Yves Saint Laurent.(Couturier who liberated women)(Obituary)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 7, 2008
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Yves Saint Laurent, couturier, died on June 1st, aged 71
THE first intimation, apparently, was when three-year-old Yves told his mother that her shoes did not go with her dress. They were at home in Oran, a dull commercial town in French-ruled Algeria, where Yves's father sold insurance and ran a chain of cinemas, and Mrs Mathieu-Saint-Laurent cut an elegant figure in colonial society. Oran had once enjoyed some small renown as the westernmost outpost of the Ottoman empire, and was to gain more later as the setting for Albert Camus's "The Plague". But after 1936 it had a genius in the making.
So, at any rate, the tribute-payers are saying. "Pure genius", "the world's ...
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Article: Fashion legend Yves Saint Laurent dies
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);
June 2, 2008 ;
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......County, NJ) 06-02-2008 Fashion legend Yves Saint Laurent dies By ELAINE GANLEY, THE ASSOCIATED...Edtion: All Editions Biographical: YVES SAINT LAURENT PARIS Legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent, who reworked the rules of fashion...
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