The inspired fashion of Yves Saint Laurent
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Ask someone to name a fashion designer and chances are the name that passes their lips will be that of Yves Saint Laurent. (article 12)
World leaders will be urged at the UN food summit in Rome to cut biofuel targets to help tackle the world food crisis. (article 15)
Yves Saint Laurent, the French fashion designer who created a bold new dress code for women during the feminist revolution of the 1970s and helped launch the era of the celebrity designer with his jet-set lifestyle, died Sunday at 71. (article 3)
PARIS, France (CNN) A funeral will be held Thursday for international fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent, who died Sunday night at his home in Paris, his longtime friend and business associate Pierre Berge told CNN Monday. (article 5)
Saint Laurent was the last of an era of fashion designers that included Coco Chanel and Christian Dior, for whom Saint Laurent worked until Dior's death in 1957. (article 5)
Pinault sold the commercial arm of the business to Gucci Group IV, whose creative director, Tom Ford, took over as designer of Saint Laurent ready-to-wear. (article 11)
" The word seduction has replaced the word elegance in fashion a French TV commentator said in 1967 about Mr. Saint Laurent's impact on the industry. (article 10)
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- ABC News: King of Haute Couture Dies (ABCNews, 06/02/2008, 345 words)
- Yves Saint Laurent, Giant of Couture, Dies at 71 (nytimes.com, 06/02/2008, 2222 words)
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- Yves Saint Laurent, 71; icon of French fashion design (L.A. Times, 06/02/2008, 326 words)
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- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > WORLD (FOX News, 06/01/2008, 13 words)
- The inspired fashion of Yves Saint Laurent (women.timesonline.co.uk, 06/03/2008, 713 words)
- European News (timesonline.co.uk, 06/03/2008, 480 words)
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