Word: saint
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Carine Roitfeld, editor in chief of French Vogue, told her not to bother. "The Saint Laurent girl doesn't carry a bag," Roitfeld said. "She puts her hands in her pockets." Hermann listened politely to Roitfeld's lecture about that iconic Saint Laurent woman, who wore tuxedos and accessorized with more attitude than jewelry...
...weeks later, a pricey half-moon of supple leather named the Muse bag was born. That was June 2005. By the end of summer, it was dangling from the arms of actresses and It girls like Demi Moore and Kate Moss, and by fall the mythic house of Yves Saint Laurent had itself a best seller...
...house of Saint Laurent has no time to waste. It has been hemorrhaging cash for almost a decade, eroding its fashion credibility for perhaps longer and awaiting, if not salvation, the kind of high-end genius that was there at the creation of the Paris couturier in 1961 and that endured for four decades...
...Yves Saint Laurent, along with Pierre Bergé, his business partner, dressed a generation of women inventively in pantsuits, peacoats and jewel-colored evening dresses that not only were beautiful but also allowed women to express their sexuality and power...
When she left Dior, friends described Galliano as angry. But he has apparently recovered. In a rare public act of conviviality between luxury houses, the designer issued an adoring statement about the CEO of Saint Laurent. "Valerie is an incredible woman to work with, as she is sharp, strong, determined?all the qualities that male company presidents possess, yet at the same time she retains her feminine charms...