Designer Yves Saint Laurent dies
“He really fashioned a whole generation, from the 50s onwards of women who were a lot more concerned both with their careers and sexually. He mirrored the times with the sexual revolution of the 60s and 70s and women going to work. He put them into trouser suits, he put them in ethnic, he put them in retro. His influence is huge, it’s still huge.”
Jayson Brunsdon, an Australian designer, remarking on the death of 71-year-old fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent. (The World Today)
“I want people to understand that this is the work of one man who started when he was 21 years old and built an enormous career until 2002…. I don’t know if fashion is an art but I know fashion needs an artist.”
Pierre Bergé, longtime partner of designer Yves Saint Laurent, speaking last week (before Saint Laurent’s death) in Montreal for the opening of a retrospective of the designer’s work at the Musée des Beaux Arts. It is said that until the couple broke up in 1976, Saint Laurent and Bergé “were known as the most famous gay couple in the world.” (Toronto Star)
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