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I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.

Yves Saint Laurent

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Yves Saint Laurent
Age: 71 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 1
Died: 2008
Died: June 1
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