http://www.france24.com/en/20080602-designer-yves-saint-laurent-dead-foundation-0
Yves Saint Laurent, one the top French
designers of the 20th century, died Sunday evening in Paris, the
Pierre-Bergé-Saint Laurent Foundation said.
The reclusive French
maestro, who had retired from haute couture in 2002 after four decades
at the top of his trade, had been ill for some time.
Yves Henri
Donat Mathieu Saint Laurent was born in the coastal town of Oran,
Algeria, on August 1, 1936, at a time when the North African country
was still considered part of France.
After taking over the
Christian Dior fashion house following the death of its founder in
1957, Saint Laurent founded his own company in the early 1960s. He made
his own name on the back of the rise of the youth market and pop
culture, fuelled by the economic boom of that decade, when women
suddenly had more economic freedom.
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