FRANCE: Yves Saint Laurent business partner confirms design icon is in good health after fall

Record ID: 574718

  • Title: FRANCE: Yves Saint Laurent business partner confirms design icon is in good health after fall
  • Date: 13th October 2006
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (French) PIERRE BERGE, PRESIDENT OF PIERRE BERGE-YVES SAINT LAURENT FOUNDATION, SAYING: "Yves Saint Laurent was at the Plaza Athenee. He left and went to get into his vehicle when he lost his balance, slipped and fell. He needed one or two stitches. I'm not sure. And then, he went home and he is very well."
  • Embargoed: 28th October 2006 13:00
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  • Location: France
  • Country: France
  • Topics: Entertainment,People
  • Reuters ID: LVA513CXXJW2OUJLKAGNF92NZIBB
  • Story Text: Fashion recluse Yves Saint Laurent fell in a Paris street on Friday (October 6) and lay motionless in the road for several minutes surrounded by aides until emergency services arrived to help him.
    "Yves Saint Laurent was at the Plaza Athenee. He left and went to get into his vehicle when he lost his balance, slipped and fell. He needed one or two stitches. I'm not sure. And then, he went home and he is very well," said Pierre Berge, his business partner and co-founder of the fashion house.
    "Yes, he quit the world of fashion but the world of fashion never left him," Berge added.
    The bespectacled Yves Saint Laurent, whose couture creations have fine art status on four continents, ruled the French fashion world from the age of 21 until his retirement in 2002.
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