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Fashion Designer Yves Saint Laurent Dies
Date: 06.02.2008
Fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent died on Sunday, June 1st at the age of 71. Born in Algeria in 1936, Yves Saint Laurent is considered, along with Gabrielle Chanel and Christian Dior, as one of the masters of 20th-century couture, He was a boy wonder whose career started early. Hired as an assistant to Christian Dior at 19, Dior’s death in 1957 propelled Yves Saint Laurent, 21, to become artistic director for the House of Dior. Encouraged by his success there, in the early 60s he went on to found his own couture house in partnership with Pierre Bergé, his mentor and then partner. In addition to revolutionizing fashion (thanks, among other things, to his tuxedo jacket for women) Saint Laurent also launched a great many fragrances. His first perfume, a chypre scent called Y, released in 1964, was followed in 1971 by a fragrance for men, ‘Pour Homme,’ for which the couturier posed nude. The idea was reprised for the fragrance M7, 31 years later. Among his biggest olfactory hits: Opium (1977, spicy oriental) and Paris (1983, a floral-rose bouquet) are both bestsellers in perfumery. Yves Saint Laurent bid his adieux to fashion in 2002. Designer Tom Ford took over as artistic director in 2004; that position is now held by Stefano Pilati. The House of Saint Laurent’s most recent fragrances include: Cinéma, L’Homme and elle.
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