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A sad day. "Yves Saint Laurent, who exploded on the fashion scene in 1958 as the boy-wonder successor to Christian Dior and endured as one of the best-known and most influential couturiers of the second half of the 20th century, died on June 1 in Paris. He was 71." Read the rest of Anne-Marie Schiro's International Herald Tribune obituary here. (photo: Associated Press)