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...fashion. When she launched her collection in 1980, Picasso had only been dabbling in jewelry design, creating a line of costume jewelry for Bergdorf Goodman and incorporating jewelry into stage outfits she designed for avant-garde productions in Paris. It wasn't until her friend the designer Yves Saint Laurent asked her to make some pieces for his collections that she began to take the craft seriously. Several years later, Tiffany creative director John Loring enlisted Picasso to design a table setting for an exhibition that the jeweler was staging. Soon she was showing Tiffany executives...
...Valentino's departure represents a poignant passing of an enduring fashion generation which includes Yves Saint Laurent who retired in 2002, and Emanuel Ungaro, who sold his house and retired soon after in 2004, and it also points to designers like Giorgio Armani and Ralph Lauren, who have created enduring fashion empires and who are nearing retirement...
...which are available at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City and mostly take the form of animals but also the odd musical instrument, has become a rite of passage of sorts for Paris' chicest shops: the sculptures have appeared in the store windows of Christian Lacroix, Chopard, Yves Saint Laurent and Le Bon March?...
...while those museums display the work of generations of craftsmen, the Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent Foundation, tel: (33-1) 44 31 64 00, is dedicated to the prodigious output of just one brain. With more than 5,000 chronologically ordered items of clothing (dating back to the 1960s and spanning 45 years), plus 15,000 accessories and a vast collection of the master's drawings and sketches, this 300-sq-m repository offers an experience that's a cross between window shopping and anthropological study-and it's all housed in the very building Saint Laurent worked...
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