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Yves Saint Laurent - biography
On 1st August 1936, Yves Mathieu Saint Laurent was born in Oran, Algeria, where his father worked in insurance. When he was a child, they moved to France.He was a weak, spindly boy and suffered at the hands of his schoolmates, so he found solace at home becoming absorbed in drawing and painting. He designed dresses for his mother and two sisters, while still a teenager.
09-Mar-2005 - Details

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Foundation Pierre Berge Yves Saint Laurent
The official site of the Fondation Pierre Berge Yves Saint Laurent
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Yves Saint Laurent - official site
Fashion House Yves Saint Laurent, part of the Gucci Group
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Saint Laurent, Yves from Encyclopedia.com
French fashion designer, b. Algeria as Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent. He established houses of couture and boutiques in Paris and New York
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Yves Saint Laurent from Askmen
Why we like him? He made women look sexy for over 40 years.
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Yves Saint Laurent shuts its doors
One of France's most prestigious haute couture fashion houses, Yves Saint Laurent, has finally closed its doors following the retirement of its famous designer and co-founder.
18-May-2005 - Details

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All About Yves
As the incomparable Yves Saint Laurent celebrates his 40th anniversary as a coutourier, the world salutes his genius
18-May-2005 - Details

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Mens Collection from YSL Channels Literary Gentleman
The YSL designer Stefano Pilati opened the proceedings rather slowly with several dandified Parisian looks of three-piece split suits, with subtly contrasting jacket, vests and trousers.
08-Jul-2005 - Details

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Fashion legend Yves Saint Laurent collapses outside boutique
These dramatic pictures in a Paris street show leading fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent collapsed in the road outside his boutique, just hours after his latest catwalk triumph.
09-Oct-2006 - Details

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Saint Laurent Does Eighties with a Twist
Pilati was right on the moment with his sportswear, too, presenting a series of biker-jogging pants. Lots of designers have been playing around with this concept in Paris - Dries Van Noten and Lanvin to name a few - but Pilati took the idea further, in particular with a beige pair with gold lurex inside padding that echoed the linings of a hefty top coat.
30-Jan-2007 - Details

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Mens fashion: YSL, Lanvin lead way in comfy elegance
Leading fashion houses Yves Saint Laurent and Lanvin offered men a lesson in juggling comfort and elegance, while Paul Smith made geeky chic the coolest look around for next autumn.
30-Jan-2007 - Details

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Yves Saint Laurent: Coal Face Chic
People often complain that we fashion folk always dress in black, but the truth is we love the many shades of that color, and rarely has a designer understood that reality better than Stefano Pilati who staged a consummately cool Saint Laurent collection in forty shades of black in the world's most popular museum on Thursday night.
10-Mar-2007 - Details

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Yves Saint-Laurent awarded high French honour
French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday awarded haute couture fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent the title of Great Officer in the Legion of Honour as part of a batch of annual Bastille Day decorations.

Saint-Laurent, born in 1936 in Oran in Algeria, had already been made a Commander in the Legion of Honour by former President Jacques Chirac.
16-Jul-2007 - Details