Article: SAINT LAURENT BIO A RIVETING ACCOUNT OF FASHION LEGEND.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)

Byline: Suzy Patterson

PARIS -- Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography

By Alice Rawsthorn. Doubleday.

405 pages. $27.50.

Yves Saint Laurent, perhaps the century's most influential fashion designer, may still be taking bows - but often looks lost on the catwalk.

His once-electric shows are often retakes on his past great ideas. But the durability of his fashion concepts proves the maxim that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

His personal story - homosexuality, alleged drug abuse and all - is now out for the first time in English, in a riveting and revealing biography titled simply, Yves Saint Laurent, written by a ...

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