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Article: Yves Saint Laurent: the man who loved women.
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- Town & Country
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- May 1, 2002
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THE NEWS THAT YVES SAINT LAURENT WOULD RETIRE AS FRANCE'S premier couturier shook the fashion world. Not that it was unexpected. Rumors had been flying for years: That he was ill. That he was tired. That he'd lost faith in fashion. But until the press conference in Paris on January 7, 2002, his legions of fans still held out hope. Yet there he was, Yves Henri Donat Mathieu Saint Laurent--now sixty-five, though looking older than his years because of a lifetime of drugs, depression and ennui--announcing that his next couture show, on January 22, would be his last. It was the end of an illustrious career, but it was time, and no one knew it better than he.
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