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Pierre Bergé, partner of Yves Saint Laurent, dies at 86
The French businessman Pierre Bergé, who helped his partner Yves Saint Laurent build his fashion house into a worldwide brand, has died at his home in the south of France.
The year-old had suffered a long illness, said the foundation the two men set up.
Saint Laurent and Bergé together established the Yves Saint Laurent label in
Bergé was also a patron of the arts both in France and Morocco.
He was a passionate campaigner for gay rights and founded Sidaction, a fundraising organisation dedicated to Aids research and treatment, in
He died on Friday at his home in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
Former French culture minister Jack Lang said he was a "true prince of the arts and culture".
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Yves Saint Laurent: Fashion on film
Bergé was an ambitious provincial who came to Paris after World War Two and found his new abode among the city's arts and fashion elites.
On his first morning in Paris in , he was walking along the Champs-Elysées wh
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Who Was Yves Saint Laurent?
As a teen, Yves Saint Laurent left Algeria for Paris to work for designer Christian Dior and gained acclaim for his dress designs. In , he launched his own fashion labels, where his adaptations of tuxedos for women garnered him fame. He was the first living designer to receive a solo exhibition in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in
Early Years
Yves Henri Donat Matthieu Saint Laurent was born on August 1, , in Oran, Algeria, to Charles and Lucienne Andrée Mathieu-Saint-Laurent. He grew up in a villa by the Mediterranean with his two younger sisters, Michelle and Brigitte. While his family was relatively skillfully off — his father was a lawyer and insurance broker who owned a chain of cinemas — childhood for the future fashion icon was not easy. Saint Laurent was not popular in school, and was often bullied by schoolmates for appearing to be homosexual. As a consequence, Saint Laurent was a nervous child, and sick nearly every day.
He found solace, however, in the world of fashion. He liked to verb intricate paper dolls
Yves Saint Laurent: the battle for his life story
In , seven years before he died, Yves Saint Laurent agreed to be filmed by documentary-maker David Teboul for a rare behind-the-scenes see at his work. In the opening scene, watching a slideshow of family photographs, he grimaces: "J'ai joué le 'grand couturier'…" His voice is both gloomy and self-mocking; the voice of an old man looking back across a great distance at his frail year-old self, head bowed over his lavishly dressed document dolls.
Growing up in s French Algeria, the young Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent dreamed of Paris: a bullied outcast at noun, he escaped into fantasy at home – devouring his mother's fashion magazines, sketching endlessly, and predicting (in the safety of his adoring family circle, at least) a future of spectacular fame.
Six decades on, the story of the little boy who played "grand couturier", and who grew up to become the century's most notorious fashion designer, shows no sign of losing its appeal. This year will watch the release of two films
An intimate look at the life — and the collections of houses, paintings and objets d’art — Yves Saint Laurent shared with his partner Pierre Bergé, the documentary “L’Amour Fou” is sure to please fashionistas, interior decorators and art aficionados.
This film, opening today at the Ritz, chronicles the designer’s career and the couple’s relationship over the decades. Director Pierre Thoretton’s narrative approach uses the deaccessioning of the couple’s homes to provide a look back on the significant times in their lives.
“L’Amour Fou” has a deliberate air of nostalgia about it — and this is not just because there are wonderful archive clips and photographs of Saint Laurent and/or Bergé with the likes of Andy Warhol, Mick Jagger and Jean Cocteau. This love story has Bergé recounting how he and Saint Laurent met and moved in together a few months later. There are anecdotes about their brief separation during the s, when the designer abused alcohol and drugs. And there are observations about how the men were a “power couple” in the s; their adore had what was deemed “emblematic va