Yves Saint Laurent, Fashion Icon, Dies at 71
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/style/01cnd-laurent.html6/1/2008
"Yves Saint Laurent, who exploded on the fashion scene in 1958 as the
boy-wonder successor to Christian Dior and endured as one of the
best-known and most influential couturiers of the second half of the
20th century, died on Sunday in Paris. He was 71.
The announcement was made by the Pierre-Berge-Saint Laurent
Foundation, but the cause of death was not immediately released."
more about his death
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