Yves Saint Laurent Fall 2007 Collection
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And the fashion industry will miss him deeply as Yves Saint Laurent has died at the age of 71 in Paris.  Bringing the runway styles that everyone adored, he was a master of the art of fashion.  Leaving home to work for Christain Dior at the age of 17, becoming a solider in the French military and even undergoing psychiatric treatment, Laurent rose to the occasion becoming the founder of YSL in 1962 along with partner, Pierre Berge.


Some gave tribute to the designer like his former partner, Pierre Berge - "Chanel gave women freedom. Yves Saint Laurent gave them power. He was someone who was very shy and introverted, who had only very few friends and hid himself from the world.

Like all creators, Yves Saint Laurent had two faces, a public face and a private face.

He no longer liked the world of today's fashion... he said it didn't understand him. He had a great, immense love affair with fashion. It's true that he left the profession, but in a couple you can split up because you must do so ... and still be very unhappy. That was his case."

And in the words of Francois Pinault - "Yves Saint Laurent invented everything, revisited everything, transformed everything to the service of a passion, to let woman shine and to free her beauty and mystery"

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