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  • June 2008

    • The Man Who Put Women in Pants

      Washington Post  |  Jun 2, 08 11:29 AM CDT

      The Man Who Put Women in Pants

      (Newser) - Yves Saint Laurent wasn’t just another designer. The man who died last night at 71 was an icon who forever changed the way women dress, Robin Givhan writes in the Washington Post . Start with this: Saint Laurent put women in pants. His elegant designs let women swagger like men, giving them “the sartorial equivalent of chutzpah.” More »

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      fashion  • fashion designer  • Yves Saint Laurent

    • Yves Saint Laurent Dead at Age 71

      AFP  |  Jun 1, 08 6:23 PM CDT

      Yves Saint Laurent Dead at Age 71

      (Newser) - Twentieth-century fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent died today at his home in Paris, AFP reports. The reclusive designer, who was battling illness, said when he retired in 2002 that he had “always given the highest importance of all to respect for this craft, which is not exactly an art, but which needs an artist to exist.” More »

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      fashion  • Paris  • Algeria  • Christian Dior  • Yves Saint Laurent

  • March 2008
  • November 2007

    • Pilati Wears YSL With Ease

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Nov 4, 07 6:37 PM CST

      Pilati Wears YSL With Ease

      (Newser) - Replacing an iconic designer is an opportunity fraught with peril; when Italian Stefano Pilati stepped in as the head of Yves Saint Laurent, he was following not only Saint Laurent himself, but Tom Ford, who designed the label for 5 years. Not surprisingly, Pilati's  first collections were pilloried. But three years in, he's reinterpreting the master and influencing the market with authority of his own, says the Daily Telegraph . More »

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      fashion  • Yves Saint Laurent

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