Yves Saint Laurent died

• Author: Fendi
• Filed under: Designers, Famous, Fashion, Fashion Week
• Date: Jun 3,2008

Yves Saint Laurent, who died at his home in Paris on Sunday after a long illness, was a revolutionary. There is virtually nothing about the way we dress or the way we shop now that was not a result of his 44-year career.

The designer and models after a show in February 1963. As one writer put it, Saint Laurent’s fashion was “the antithesis of the haute couture school with its premise of buttressing and correcting the woman’s silhouette.”