Yves Saint Laurent
[img_assist|nid=31293|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=190|height=220]The son of an insurance company president, Yves Saint Laurent was born on August 1, 1936 in Oran, in what was then Algeria. He inherited his fashion sense from his mother. He studied first at the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture, but felt frustrated by the syllabus so left after a few months. Saint Laurent left home at the age of 17 to work for the French designer Christian Dior. Following Dior's death in 1957, Yves, at the age of 21, was put in charge of the effort of saving the Dior house from financial ruin.
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