Does anyone know a good website where I can find the BEST biography on fashion designer Yves St Laurent?
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Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent (born August 1, 1936 in Oran, Algeria) is a French fashion designer.\n\n\n \n\nEarly career\nBorn to insurance-company manager Charles Saint-Laurent and his socialite wife, Lucienne Mathieu, members of a family from Alsace-Lorraine that settled in North Africa during the Franco-Prussian War, Saint Laurent left home at the age of 17 to work for the designer Christian Dior. Following the death of Dior in 1957, Saint-Laurent at the age of 21 was put in charge of the effort of saving the Dior house from financial ruin. Saint-Laurent's started his own couture house, which was financed by his lover Pierre Berge in 1962. The couple split romantically in 1976 but remained business partners.\n\n\nMilitary service\nShortly after this success he was conscripted to serve in the French army during the Algerian war of independence. After 20 days the stress of being hazed by fellow soldiers led the fragile Saint Laurent to be institutionalized in a French mental hospital, where he underwent psychiatric treatment, including electroshock therapy, for a nervous breakdown.\n\n\nThe House of Yves Saint-Laurent\nIn the wake of his nervous breakdown, Saint Laurent was released from Dior and started his own label together with Pierre Bergé with the now-famous initials of YSL. During the 1960s and 1970s the firm popularized fashion trends such as the beatnik look, tweed suits, tight pants and tall, thigh-high boots. Among his muses were Loulou de La Falaise, the daughter of a French marquis and an Anglo-Irish fashion model, Betty Catroux, the half-Brazilian daughter of an American diplomat and wife of a French decorator, and Catherine Deneuve, the iconic french actress. Ambassador to the couturier during the late 1970s and early 80s was London socialite millionairess Diane Boulting-Casserley Vandelli, making the brand ever more popular amongst the european jet-set and upper classes.\n\nIn 1993, the Saint-Laurent fashion house was sold to the pharmaceuticals company Sanofi for approximately $600,000,000. In 1999 Gucci bought the YSL brand and Tom Ford designed the ready-to-wear collection while Saint-Laurent designed the haute couture collection. Since his retirement in 1998 Saint-Laurent has become increasingly reclusive and has spent a much of his time at his house in Marrakech, Morocco.\n\nIn 2002, dogged by years of poor health, drug abuse, depression, alcoholism, criticisms of YSL designs, and problems with lead designer Tom Ford, Saint-Laurent and Gucci closed the illustrious couture house of YSL. While the house no longer exists the brand still survives through its parent company Gucci.\n\nThe pret-a-porter line is still being produced under the direction of Stefano Pilati after Tom Ford retired in 2004.
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Wikipedia has a biography of Alexander Alekhine at:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Alekhine
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Haha! (sorry, hehe) arite u can try this link if u want, http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/bc.html, \nbut i'm not too sure if u'll find ANYTHING regarding fashion in it! u a fashion designer too? well, botswana's a crazy dreamland to pick n study the fashion of.. why not china for instance!!
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it's Andrea Doria and if you type that nto search, you'll get www.andreadoria.com which tells you everything you need to know..and some really cool pictures to boot!
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emule.com and search for angelina jolie you'll find all about her
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Welcome to my Web site!\n\nThis Web site is dedicated to the Great Men and Women of this world. It is not an exhaustive list of biographies; however over time, I hope to have more information about the Great Men and Women of our planet.
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Go to these websites and check the biography:
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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies/mel_gibson_biog.html
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Excellent site to start with...\nhttp://www.louis-xiv.de/index.php?t=start&a=start\n\nhttp://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09371a.htm\n\nThe first twenty years of the king's personal reign were the most brilliant.\nhttp://www.chateauversailles.fr/en/210_Louis_XIV_the_Sun_King.php
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look at www.valentin.de website
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It's called Google.  Or even Biography.com.
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Try here:\nhttp://www.fashion.net/howto/fashionmodel/index.html
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In this web site you find her biography, hope that is what you was looking....\n\nGood luck with your searching...
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http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/figures.htm\n\nhttp://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/women/autobios.html\n\nIt's called 'google'
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http://www.instyle.com/instyle/\n\nThis is the web site for InStyle magazine, it always has tons of really nice fashion spreads.  I hope it helps, and good luck!
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http://www.cesaria-evora.com/\nI love her! she is awesome!
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Maybe nifty.org . They have a database of actual stories which is pretty good.