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Article: Yves Saint Laurent: fashion god Yves Saint Laurent is gone, but certainly not forgotten.(Remembrance)
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- August 1, 2008
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Fashion lost one of its finest on June 1, when the legendary couturier Yves Saint Laurent, 71, died at his Paris home of brain cancer, according to his longtime business partner, Pierre Berge. He had quite a life. From his celebrated entree into design in 1957 at Dior, where, at age 21, he replaced the late Christian Dior, through his retirement in 2002, Saint Laurent hypnotized with his imaginative creations. An exacting sense of color, cut, exoticism and androgyny were his signatures, as was the infamously fragile constitution that led him to retreat from the fashion world altogether in his final years. Yet his influence remains strong--current ...
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