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Article: Yves Saint Laurent dies
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- June 3, 2008
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Saint Laurent, a reclusive, troubled and lonely figure in his
final years, was the first fashion designer to take account of the
more independent lifestyle and greater career ambitions of women
from the 1960s.
His life-long associate, and former lover, Pierre Berge said
yesterday: "[Coco] Chanel gave women freedom (in the 1920s and
1930s). Yves gave them power ... he was a libertarian, an anarchist
who threw bombs at the legs of society."
M. Sarkozy said the world had lost "one of the great names of
fashion, the first man to elevate haute couture to an art form."
The fashion designer, Tommy Hilfiger, said Saint Laurent was a
"creative genius who changed the world of fashion forever".
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