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Check out this article on BBook.com: http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/remembering-yves-saint-laurent Remembering Yves Saint Laurent While Yves Saint Laurent may be gone, his legacy and memory remains. To many people, Saint Laurent was more than a designer. The fashion revolutionary, who died Sunday of a brain tumor, was responsible for creating iconic designs for over 48 years. In his own words, Saint Laurent aimed “to make women beautiful, but to reassure them, to give them confidence, to allow them to come to terms with themselves." And he did just that. Saint Laurent not only crossed traditional female fashion constraints by creating androgynous designs for women in the modern world, but he also traversed social and racial boundaries within the industry. In a tearful interview with Britain’s Channel 4 News, Naomi Campbell attributed Saint Laurent with propelling black models onto the runway. "My first Vogue cover ever was because of this man," Campbell said. www.bbook.com