Jun 02 2008
Fashion icon Yves St. Laurent dies
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French fashion designer Yves St. Laurent passed away at his home in Paris Sunday following a lengthy illness. His death was confirmed by longtime friend and business partner Pierre Berge.
St. Laurent is credited with helping to launch an era of celebrity designers with lavish lifestyle and jet-setting ways. The style icon helped develop a new style of clothing for women. Perfectly positioned as the go-to designer during the seventies feminist revolution, St. Laurent was the first to make pants and pantsuits the basic pieces of a woman’s wardrobe. He also designed stylish evening wear such as sheer blouses, flounced skirts and a slinky tuxedo worn over bare flesh that he famously named, “le smoking.”
In a career that spanned fifty years, beginning when he was just 21, St. Laurent amassed a fortune. In addition to his couture and ready-to-wear divisions, St. Laurent expanded into best-selling perfumes starting with Rive Gauche, and licensing agreements that put his name on sunglasses, hosiery and more than 100 other products. His estimated annual take-home pay exceeded $4 million dollars a year.
St. Laurent was 71.
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