Legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent dies at 71 1 hour ago PARIS (AP) — Legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent, who reworked the rules of fashion by putting women into elegant pantsuits that came to define how modern women dressed, died Sunday evening, a longtime friend and associate said. He was 71. Pierre Berge said Saint Laurent died at his Paris home following a long illness. A towering figure of 20th century fashion, Saint Laurent was widely considered the last of a generation that included Christian Dior and Coco Chanel and made Paris the fashion capital of the world, with the Rive Gauche, or Left Bank, as its elegant headquarters. In the fast-changing world of haute couture, Saint Laurent was hailed as the most influential and enduring designer of his time. From the first YSL tuxedo and his trim pantsuits to see-through blouses, safari jackets and glamorous gowns, Saint Laurent created instant classics that remain stylish decades later. When the designer announced his retirement in 2002 at age 65 and the closure of the Paris-based haute couture house he had founded 40 years earlier, it was mourned in the fashion world as the end of an era. His ready-to-wear label, Rive Gauche, which was sold to Gucci in 1999, still has boutiques around the world.
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My mother was in Paris many years ago, and was disappointed to see the breadth of diversity this great designer had stretched to.
Mondrian'
Dress
Yves Saint Laurent
1965
Paris, France
Museum no. T.369-1974
Given by Yves Saint Laurent
This cocktail dress is from the Mondrian collection, inspired by the 1920s
abstract paintings by the Dutch artist of the same name. It was featured on the front of French Vogue
in September 1965 and many cheaper copies were produced for the mass market.
Worn Mary Quant make up, and had the Twiggy hairstyle.
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