Legacy Matters
The funeral of Yves Saint Laurent at the Saint-Roch church in Paris
If anyone was going to have a designer funeral, it was Yves Saint Laurent.
Scores of the world's most beautiful women gathered yesterday in Paris to pay tribute to one of the most iconic couturiers of the last 50 years.
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Miss Bruni noted how Saint Laurent had put women into masculine tailoring.
And her husband, President Nicolas Sarkozy, said: 'One of the greatest names of fashion has disappeared, the first to elevate haute couture to the rank of art. He was convinced that beauty was a luxury that every man and woman needed.'
Tributes to the 71-year-old 'fashion prince', who died on Sunday from a brain tumour, highlighted how he modernised female fashion in the Sixties and had empowered women by putting them in leather biker jackets and army uniforms.
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He was cremated and his ashes flown to a botanical garden in Marrakech, Morocco, where he spent much of his life.
