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Article: YVES SAINT LAURENT; CLOSING THE DOOR.(Yves Saint Laurent retires)(Brief Article)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- January 7, 2002
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PARIS -- The end of an epoch.
Yves Saint Laurent will today announce his retirement at a news conference in his fashion house at 5 Avenue Marceau, ending what has been the most influential, innovative and iconic fashion career of the last 50 years. In the last century, only Christian Dior, who Saint Laurent succeeded at Dior as a precocious 21 year old; Coco Chanel, who anointed him her spiritual successor, and Cristobal Balenciaga occupied the same plateau.
Saint Laurent's decision to retire was confirmed to WWD on Friday by his partner and business associate, Pierre Berge. Speculation that the 65-year-old designer planned to retire has been rampant ...