Today June 2nd it was announced that Iconic French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent passed away. The news was delivered by longtime friend Pierre Berge.
Coincidentally, its sample sale season here in Paris, and guess which sample sale this lady was in attendance? I heard of his passing on the way to the sample sale in Montrouge.
I figured I really have to get something now, you know in honor of the late great. And that I did , i bought a pair of peach and white lather stilettos circa 2004 ( I’m guessing, don’t ask me what they were still doing with shoes from back in the hay day, i really didn’t care as they were whispering my feet and calling my name to rescue them from this unstable sample sale home. So i did and now they are chez moi!
More info on Yves Saint Laurent:
Saint Laurent was born August 1, 1936, in Oran, Algeria.
He changed the way modern women dressed. His introduction of the tailored men’s suit type for women was a big hit and revolutionized the way women dressed.
At the young age of 21 after the death of Christian Dior, he was put in charge to run things in 1957.
He left Dior in 1961 and opened his own couture house, in 1962.
In 1999, he sold the rights to the YSL brand to Gucci for $70 million, and Tom Ford designed the ready-to-wear collection while Saint-Laurent designed the haute couture collection.
The Associated Press reports that “
After retirement, Saint Laurent spoke of his battles with depression, drugs and loneliness, though he gave no indication that those problems were directly tied to his decision to stop working.
“I’ve known fear and terrible solitude,” he said. “Tranquilizers and drugs, those phony friends. The prison of depression and hospitals. I’ve emerged from all this, dazzled but sober.”"
His funeral is set to take place this Thursday at the Saint Roch Church in central Paris.
Photo: wireimage
