RIP: Yves St. Laurent
Due to my jet setting foray from one end of the globe to the other [EA 05/12/08] the errant aesthete apologizes for this late entry on the unimaginable loss of a notable aethete.
France and the world are grieving the loss of Yves St. 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. Laurent died on Sunday in Paris. He was 71.
[...] Originally a maverick and a generator of controversy — in 1968, his suggestion that women wear pants as an everyday uniform was considered revolutionary — Mr. Saint Laurent developed into a more conservative designer, a believer in evolution rather than revolution. He often said that all a woman needed to be fashionable was a pair of pants, a sweater and a raincoat.
As he retired, he said: “I have known fear and the terrors of solitude. I have known those fair-weather friends we call tranquilizers and drugs. I have known the prison of depression and the confinement of hospital. But one day, I was able to come through all of that, dazzled yet sober.”
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