In 1961, when Mr Saint Laurent set up shop in Paris under his own name, most couturiers were not quite like this.

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Forget about the fact that she just flew to Paris to attend the Yves Saint Laurent retrospective I mean, this is only the fashion section, after all.

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When a real-life Frenchwoman moves into the neighborhood, Ms. Beaulieu sneaks over to inhale a bit of Paris through forbidden spritzes of Yves Saint Laurent's perfume Rive Gauche.

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In 2009, the estate of Yves Saint Laurent put two of the heads, the rat and the rabbit, up for auction at Christie's in Paris.

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