Posted on 10/06/2006 3:39:08 PM PDT by Cecily
These dramatic pictures in a Paris street show leading fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent collapsed in the road outside his boutique, just hours after his latest catwalk triumph.
After celebrities like Victoria Beckham and Katie Holmes had applauded his YSL label's latest creations during his show at the French capital's fashion week, the 70-year fell down in Avenue Montaigne, close to the Champs Elysee.
Aides rushed to help the 70-year-old, pictured lying next to his black Mercedes.
It follows increasing concerns about the multi-millionaire's health after a lifetime of high living involving drink, drugs and numerous glamorous girfriends.
"Yves collapsed suddenly and without warning," said an onlooker.
"Yves never looks super healthy at the best of times, but this came as a real shock."
"It was nasty fall. Medics arrived very quickly and he was rushed away for treatment. We are just hoping that he is going to be all right."
Laurent, who was born in Algeria when it was a French colony, left home at the age of 17 to work for the designer Christian Dior before setting up his own label YSL, based on his intitials.
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Girlfriends?
"My name is Tobi, with an I, with an accent over the I."
< /family guy >
A-yup. Fraid so.
Oddly enough, many fashion designers and hairdressers in Europe are straight - and rather scandalously so, may I add! It's only in the US that these seem to be entirely gay professions.
He's been a designer for decades . . . that should've been the first tip-off.
Well, there was Oleg Cassini, whom I understand almost married Grace Kelly.
Okaaay. I remember when he was discharged from the French Army as being too "sissified" to handle the physical challenges. Always thought he was gay. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
The stereotype still exists, though. There was a Lithuanian pop hit a few years back: "Mes dizineriai" ("We're designers"). The refrain was sung with a lisp.
Ralph Lauren and Tommy Helfinger are straight as was Oleg Cassini.
He fainted when he saw the price of his stuff.
YVES SAINT LAURENT
Yves Saint Laurent was born in Oran, Algeria, in 1936. Saint Laurent studied fashion in Paris. In 1953, he won first prize in a competition sponsored by the International Wool Secretariat, which led to a job with Christian Dior. Saint Laurent worked with Dior until Dior's death in 1957. After Dior's death, the 21-year-old Saint Laurent became the head designer for the House of Dior.
His first collection under Dior, the trapeze line, was a worldwide success. Saint Laurent opened his own house in 1961 and presented his first collection under his own name in January 1962.
Yves Saint Laurent is best known as the master of casual chic.
Throughout the 1960s, Saint Laurent created many young and innovative designs for women. He introduced masculine tailoring into women's wardrobes such as pants suits, military and safari-style jackets, as well as tuxedos for women.
His seductive eveningwear often was based on retro and ethnic styles. Saint Laurent was the first living designer to have a retrospective exhibition of his work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1983/1984."
He's a sissy, but not gay. And he gets to decide who models his clothes. All about the casting couch, bra.
Yves Saint Laurent Lives! An early picture of Yves Saint Laurent taken at the age of 21 when Dior snapped him up after only a 15 minute interview. After his first collection he was acclaimed as the man who could change women's clothes - something which he most certainly has done. 1953?
That being said, nobody needs to tell me how to show up for a job interview, nor what "business casual" really means.
I appreciate Pierre Cardin and Yves Saint Laurent. Christian Dior always struck me as too effete; I never cared for his brand of cologne either.
Being a naturalized German foreign national I appreciate "style", but am unimpressed by "flashy".
As much as we loath the concept of "profiling", everybody understands (at least on an unconcious level), "Kleider macht die Leuten."
I don't argue the point.., LOL.
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