"fashion was not only supposed to make women beautiful,
but to reassure them, to give them confidence,
to allow them to come to terms with themselves."
Yves Saint Laurent. The legendary designer who reworked
the rules of fashion by putting women into elegant
pantsuits that came to define how modern women dressed,
died Sunday evening, June 1, 2008, He was 71.
Thus In Memoriam To Designer Yves Saint Laurent ~ A True Legend
& To All Those Coming Out From The Graves of The Past & Into The
New Future World Destiny Of A Return Design Back To Happy Days III ~
& Into A New Delight~full Era Dawning...As we now remember back
to a time when our "Mothers Generation" all wore those legendary
"Returning Back Once Again To Memories Mind" Designs Of...
Legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent dies at 71
By ELAINE GANLEY, Associated Press Writer
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080602/ap_on_re_eu/obit_yves_saint_laurent
A towering figure of 20th century fashion, Saint Laurent was widely considered the last of a generation that included Christian Dior and Coco Chanel and made Paris the fashion capital of the world, with the Rive Gauche, or Left Bank, as its elegant headquarters.
In the fast-changing world of haute couture, Saint Laurent was hailed as the most influential and enduring designer of his time. From the first YSL tuxedo and his trim pantsuits to see-through blouses, safari jackets and glamorous gowns, Saint Laurent created instant classics that remain stylish decades later.
Berge praised Saint Laurent as the man who marked "the second half of the 20th century" in fashion.
"Chanel gave women freedom" in the first half, and Saint Laurent "gave them power," he said on France-Info radio. Saint Laurent was a "true creator," going beyond the aesthetic to make a social statement, Berge said.
"In this sense he was a libertarian, an anarchist and he threw bombs at the legs of society. That's how he transformed society and that's how he transformed women."
Saint Laurent was born Aug. 1, 1936, in Oran, Algeria, where his father worked as a shipping executive. He first emerged as a promising designer at the age of 17, winning first prize in a contest sponsored by the International Wool Secretariat for a cocktail dress design.
A year later in 1954, he enrolled at the Chambre Syndicale school of haute couture, but student life lasted only three months. He was introduced to Christian Dior, then regarded as the greatest creator of his day, and Dior was so impressed with Saint Laurent's talent that he hired him on the spot.
When Dior died suddenly in 1957, Saint Laurent was named head of the House of Dior at the age of 21. The next year, his first solo collection for Dior — the "trapeze" line — launched Saint Laurent's stardom. The trapeze dress — with its narrow shoulders and wide, swinging skirt — was a hit, and a breath of fresh air after years of constructed clothing, tight waists and girdles.
In 1960, Saint Laurent was drafted into military service — an experience that shattered the delicate designer, who by the end of the year was given a medical discharge for nervous depression.
Bouts of depression marked his career. Berge, the designer's longtime business partner and former romantic partner, was quoted as saying that Saint Laurent was born with a nervous breakdown.
Saint Laurent returned to the spotlight in 1962, opening his own haute couture fashion house with Berge. The pair later started a chain of Rive Gauche ready-to-wear boutiques.
Life Magazine hailed his first line under his own label as "the best collection of suits since Chanel."
Berge has said that Saint Laurent's gift to fashion was that he empowered women after Chanel had freed them.
Nowhere was Saint Laurent's gift more evident than the valedictory fashion show that marked his retirement in January 2002.
Forty years of fashion were paraded in a 300-piece retrospective that blurred the boundaries of time, mixing his creations of yesterday and today in one stunning tribute to the endurance of Saint Laurent's style. He also designed costumes for theater and film.
There was the simple navy blue pea coat over white pants, which the designer first showed in 1962 when he opened his couture house and kept as one of his hallmarks.
His "smoking," or tuxedo jacket, of 1966 remade the tux as a high fashion statement for both sexes. It remained the designer's trademark item and was updated yearly until he retired.
Also from the 60s came Beatnik chic — a black leather jacket and knit turtleneck with high boots — and sleek pantsuits that underlined Saint Laurent's statement on equality of the sexes. He showed that women could wear "men's clothes," which when tailored to the female form became an emblem of elegant femininity.
"More than any other designer since Chanel, YSL represented Paris as the style leader," The Independent of London wrote in an editorial after Saint Laurent's retirement. "By putting a woman in a man's tuxedo, he changed fashion forever, in a style that never dated."
In his own words, Saint Laurent said he felt "fashion was not only supposed to make women beautiful, but to reassure them, to give them confidence, to allow them to come to terms with themselves."
Some of his revolutionary style was met with resistance. There are famous stories of women wearing Saint Laurent pantsuits who were turned away from hotels and restaurants in London and New York.
One scandal centered on the designer himself, when he posed nude and floppy-haired for a photographer in 1971, wearing only his trademark thick black glasses, to promote his perfume.
Saint Laurent's rising star was eternalized in 1983, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted a show to his work, the first ever to a living designer.
Subsequent shows at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and in Beijing made him a French national treasure, and he was awarded the Legion d'Honneur in 1985.
When France basked in the glory of its 1998 World Cup soccer final, it was Saint Laurent who took center field pre-kick off with an on-field retrospective at the
Stade de France.
Industry insiders cited friction between Saint Laurent and Gucci's creative director, Tom Ford, as a likely factor in the fashion guru's decision to retire three years later. Ford stepped down in 2003.
When he bowed out of fashion in 2002, Saint Laurent spoke of his battles with depression, drugs and loneliness, though he gave no indication that those problems were directly tied to his decision to stop working.
"I've known fear and terrible solitude," he said. "Tranquilizers and drugs, those phony friends. The prison of depression and hospitals. I've emerged from all this, dazzled but sober."
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Thus Also Dedicated In Memoriam To The Slain
So They Also Shall return Out from The Grave
To Once Again Walk On Towards A New Golden Sky...
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Home from Iraq, wary Marine fatally wounded
By THOMAS J. SHEERAN, Associated Press Writer
Sun Jun 1, 9:44 PM ET
CLEVELAND - On leave from the violence he had survived in the war in Iraq, a young Marine was so wary of crime on the streets of his own home town that he carried only $8 to avoid becoming a robbery target.
Despite his caution, Lance Cpl. Robert Crutchfield, 21, was shot point-blank in the neck during a robbery at a bus stop. Feeding and breathing tubes kept him alive 4 1/2 months, until he died of an infection on May 18.
Two men have been charged in the attack, and Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason said Friday the case was under review to decide whether to seek the death penalty.
"It is an awful story," said Alberta Holt, the young Marine's aunt and his legal guardian when he was a teenager determined to flee a troubled Cleveland school for safer surroundings in the suburbs.
Crutchfield was attacked on Jan. 5 while he and his girlfriend were waiting for a bus. He had heeded the warnings of commanders that a Marine on leave might be seen as a prime robbery target with a pocketful of money, so he only carried $8, his military ID card and a bank card.
"They took it, turned his pockets inside out, took what he had and told him since he was a Marine and didn't have any money he didn't deserve to live. They put the gun to his neck and shot him," Holt told The Associated Press.
The two men charged in the attack were identified as Ean Farrow, 19, and Thomas Ray III, 20, both of Cleveland. Their attorneys did not respond to The Associated Press' requests for comment.
Crutchfield knew he was returning to Iraq for another tour of duty, but had hesitated to tell his family until he was nearing the end of his 30-day leave.
He apparently had a troubled family. Holt wouldn't discuss it except to say "his mom and dad didn't raise him, just his grandmother and me." He didn't smoke or drink, she said.
He had attended Cleveland's inner-city East High School, but asked that he be allowed to live with his aunt and grandmother and attend suburban Bedford High School for his final two years.
"He saw his school was in turmoil and asked to get out," Holt said.
Bedford High teachers recalled Crutchfield's smile, his pride in his appearance, his determination to join the Marine Corps after graduation in 2005 and his aspiration to become an architect.
"He was friendly and kind and willing to help out in any way that he could," counselor Yvonne Sims said in an e-mail.
Connie LaNasa, who works in the school office, said Crutchfield was a well-behaved student and went about his school work with little notice.
"He lived out what he wanted to do and that is to be a Marine," LaNasa said.
Faculty members remembered Crutchfield as a top student in the computer design program, an office assistant and participant in the prom fashion show.
After his long hospitalization, an infection broke out a week before he died. "He said it felt like he was getting hit by lightning," Holt said.
When Crutchfield's body was laid out Tuesday in the Sacrificial Missionary Baptist Church, his white military dress hat was tugged down close to his eyes to conceal the skull flap that had been kept open to relieve swelling in his brain.
Marines provided an honor guard at his funeral service and carried the casket to his grave at the Western Reserve National Cemetery near Akron.
He was buried there on the same day as a Vietnam veteran,
two veterans from World War II and three from Korea.
Time to Perhaps Clean Up Cleveland right Here At Home
As Well As Sadr city, Bag-It_Dad Over There In Iraq..
Perhaps Now With A New MUNUS Infusion Of...
Arena Gladiators &
(Morituri te salutant)
Those who are about to die, we salute you",
which was the greeting phrase of the gladiators,
when they entered the PassionSWord Arena & Thus...
"Life becomes transparent against the background of death,
and fundamental social and cultural issues are revealed."
-Metcalf and Huntington Celebration of Death
Gladiatorial contests, munera gladiatoria, hold a central
place in modern perceptions of Roman behavior.
They were without a doubt also of major significance to the
way the Romans ordered their lives. The investment of wealth,
time, and emotion into the games was colossal.
For the Romans, gladiators were the quintessential symbols of
courage in the face of death in battle.
A determined organization of his fellow gladiators into a tightly organized platoon in the arena is also intended to serve as a reminder that success and survival on the battlefield is not just a matter of individual courage, but a matter of military comradeship and discipline.
For A True Gladiator is a man who holds to the simple values of family and hard, honest work. He is a man of the soil (so aptly recalled in his grasping of the sand of the arena before each contest), not of the city and its corrupting forces.
Thus grasping of the sand of the arena before each contest was done
1. In Honor To & For the Dead ( Munus) obbligatorio
(A Sacred Creed & Divine Obligation to The Dead)
2. In Honor Of Both Time & Space
(Unto Father Time & Space Shall Our Spirits Return Only
Thus With The Divine "Never Walk Alone" Belief In
3. In honor to Mother Earth
( ...The Return Once More back Unto The "Golden Dawn Return
To Mother Earth Once Again & A Divine Return Back To Life )
Thus In honor to those who died in both time & space
Buried now within Mother Earth;s Sacred womb.
For Thus "Gladiators" is...
a cautionary Roman tale about a nation's soul.---------
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& So Remember Always That You Shall Never Walk Alone
But Shall Once Again Also Dance The Danza Macabra
Along With All Those Other Collective Gathering Of
Scaraband Souls That Truly Also Doth Believe In &...
Thus Are Also Destined To Never Walk Alone Even Through
The Darkest Moments Given Forth Amidst The Hallowed
Shades & Shadows Dancing Within Fate's Eternal
Time & Space MatriX VorteX Of Both Life & Death...
And To That Divine Dream Journey Re-Awakening Return
Back To Those More "Happy Days" When...
Love-Hope Honesty-Humbleness Truth-Honor Dignity-Grace
Where Held As Treasures So Much Greater & Way Far Beyond
Than Those Of Just "Quick Fame & Fleeting Fortune"...
Oh...How Empty They Can Be...
For They Are Only Passing Things Within The Whole
Divine Scheme Of The "Happy Days Dream" Of Eternal Love...
Held in Sacred Obligation To Each & Every Moment
Within Father Time & Space's Matrix VorteX Rhythm
Of Eternal Peace & Love...Endless Hatred & War Within
Eternity's Endless Eternal ReAwakenings In Life & Death...
Now it's been 10,000 years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man's reign is through
But through the eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it's only yesterday...
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find.......
How All May Forever Connect The ... "Out From The Grave"
Forces That Will Be With You Always, Forever & Ever...Amen
So Once Again As Always...
Audemus iura nostra defendere
(We dare defend our rights)
Signed Gladly, Sadly and Tragically
At the PassionSword Blades Edge
We Bitter-Sweet Over Bitter Gladiators
Of the Society of the Sacred PassionsWord
So Given Forth in The Divine Hope & Dream Awakening
That Thus Guides Us All & Binds Us All Together In
Eternal Rest Peace & Love... To & For All Forever...
As All Must Fade Once More Within...Passionsword Arena's
Of "Guess It's Time For Judgement Day" Is Back In Black
