Dernier Adieu à Yves Saint Laurent

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[blondeatlast]

1. Véritablement. What a visionary, what a loss. nt

[JDPriestly]

2. He helped to free us women from the tyranny and discomfort of skirts.

"I wanted to accompany women in this great liberation movement of the last century," he said on retiring in 2002. "I created the contemporary woman's wardrobe."

Seen as the last of the great couturiers of the 20th century, Saint Laurent, who died Sunday aged 71, was always surrounded by women and, like all creators, equally alert to the buzz of the times.

When he first stepped into the fashion trade as a 19-year-old in the late 1950s, Paris' highly expensive haute couture houses were still in the business of offering rich women clothes to redefine their silhouettes.

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His designs "were the antithesis of the haute-couture school with its premise of buttressing and correcting the woman's silhouette," said Alicia Drake in her book "The Beautiful Fall" about the coming of Saint Laurent and his rival Karl Largerfeld.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-c5S4nJ_UbXaYZB7Qn10ZKArI-w

[blondeatlast]

3. Kick for a visionary. nt