Why did fashion bids adieu yves saint laurent as the top model?
Stars and couturiers filed into the Saint-Roch church in central Paris on Thursday for a final homage to the renowned fashion designer four days after he died of brain cancer at the age of 71. http://abcnews.go.com/International/WireStory?id=5012191&page=1 First lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, a former model who strutted the catwalks to show off Saint Laurent’s collections, accompanied her husband, President Nicolas Sarkozy. Actress Catherine Deneuve, her face drawn, bore a stalk of green wheat, which Saint Laurent loved, as she entered. She read a poem by Walt Whitman during the service. Designers Vivienne Westwood, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Sonia Rykiel and John Galliano were among luminaries in the crowd, as was Farah Diba Pahlavi, the exiled widow of the Shah of Iran. Considered “last of a generation” that included Christian Dior and Coco Chanel, and he made Paris the fashion capital of the world with
