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Article: BERGE: EDITORS HAVE NO TASTE.(Pierre Berge; Yves Saint Laurent to retire)(Brief Article)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- January 11, 2002
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PARIS -- J'accuse!
Yves Saint Laurent and business partner Pierre Berge are going out with a bang, blaming tasteless fashion magazines, a relentless marketing machine that's devoid of creativity and a designer community that disrespects women for driving the two into retirement.
"Yves thinks people today are working in terms of marketing more than in terms of creation," Berge said in an interview with WWD. "The world of fashion today is foreign to Yves. He doesn't like it, doesn't recognize it and doesn't want to live in it. It was one reason, among others, why he has decided to give it up.
"Today, the situation is very complicated," he ...