Legendary Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent has died.
Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent August 1, 1936 – June 1, 2008
One of the most widely-known pictures of Yves Saint Laurent was taken just after his first collection for the House of Dior, in January 1958. He is seen leaning out of a balcony, staring calmly into the lens, while photographers around him strain for a shot. Christian Dior, the great French couturier who brought fashion out of the deprivations of World War II with the New Look, had died suddenly three months before, and Saint Laurent, his protege, was tapped to take over the house. The confident Trapeze Line that he showed brought some members of the audience to tears, and the newspaper headlines the next day proclaimed that Saint Laurent had "saved France." He was just 21 years old.
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