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Article: SAINT YVES.(fashion designer Saint Yves Laurent's career highlights)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- March 26, 1998
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PARIS -- Let others worry about fashion moments. Yves Saint Laurent deals in decades.
Beginning with his first collection for Christian Dior on Jan. 30, 1958, when his Trapeze line brought tears to the eyes of his audience and made front-page news around the world, Saint Laurent has proven to be one of the most important designers in the history of fashion.
From androgynous smokings to Pop Art dresses, safari shirtjackets to couture renditions of Mondrian paintings, the career of Saint Laurent has been a constant series of coups de theatre. He was the first to show transparency on the runway, in 1968; the first couturier to recognize the power of ...