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Article: Adieu to the Era of Yves.(Yves Saint Laurent)(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek International
- Article date:
- January 21, 2002
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Thirty-five years ago Spanish film director Luis Bunuel hired French actress Catherine Deneuve to play the lead in his new picture, "Belle de Jour." The character was complicated: a frigid bourgeois wife who, unbeknown to her husband, works by day as a high-class call girl for fetishists. How, Bunuel and Deneuve wondered, would such a woman dress? They needed clothes that were both traditional and sexually charged, almost to the point of perversion.
Deneuve remembered a fashion show she had attended two years earlier put on by a young French designer named Yves Saint Laurent. He had begun making headlines with radical designs like trapeze dresses and shifts based ...