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Article: Saint Laurent story is riveting, revealing
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 7, 1997
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Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography.By Alice Rawsthorn.Nan
A. Talese/Doubleday, $27.50. 401 pages. Yves Saint Laurent,
perhaps the century's most influential fashion designer, may still
be taking bows but often looks lost on the catwalk. His
once-electric shows are often re-takes on his past great ideas. But
the durability of his fashion concepts proves the maxim that
imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
His personal story homosexuality, alleged drug abuse and all is
now out for the first time in English, in a riveting and revealing
biography titled simply, "Yves Saint Laurent."
It was written by a journalist from the Financial Times of London,
Alice Rawsthorn, a ...