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Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent dies in Paris
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PARIS Yves Saint Laurent, one of the most influential and enduring designers of the 20th century, empowered women by reinventing pants as a sleek, elegant staple of the female wardrobe. (article 1)
Saint Laurent died Sunday night at his Paris home after a yearlong battle with brain cancer, said Pierre Berge, Saint Laurent's close friend and business partner for four decades. (article 1)
Established in 1961, the French fashion house boasts an extensive archive and is credited with popularizing garments such as safari jackets and women's tuxedos known as le smoking which are now part of the basic vocabulary of design. (article 6)
As designers debut their fall 2007 collections here, only Chanel and YSL exist as clothing brands that self-consciously hold on to their past as a base from which to move into the future. (article 7)
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 4)
Yves Saint Laurent CEO Valerie Hermann on Monday described the fashion house in Paris as " very respectful of the emotions of the day. (article 4)
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Source articles
- Legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent dies at 71 :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Obituaries (suntimes.com, 06/03/2008, 1007 words)
- Yves Saint Laurent, Giant of Couture, Dies at 71 (nytimes.com, 06/02/2008, 2222 words)
- Article:Brilliant designer Yves Saint Laurent dies:/c/a/2008/06/01/MN16R3FSQ.DTL (sfgate.com, 06/02/2008, 1143 words)
- Yves Saint Laurent, 71; icon of French fashion design (L.A. Times, 06/02/2008, 751 words)
- Yves Saint Laurent reinvented the clothing we live in (L.A. Times, 06/03/2008, 929 words)
- Back in Fashion (Washington Post, 06/03/2008, 570 words)
- Yves Saint Laurent And Chanel, Looking Back and Moving Forward (Washington Post, 06/03/2008, 836 words)
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