French president mourns YSL at Paris funeral
Agencies | Updated: 2008-06-06 09:33
Actress Catherine Deneuve delivers her eulogy during the funeral service for late fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in Paris, June 5, 2008. Saint Laurent was part of a distinguished line of French designers from Coco Chanel to Christian Dior who consolidated the reputation of Paris as the fashion capital of the world.[Agencies]
Actress Catherine Deneuve, whose aura of refined elegance was most closely associated with the designer, read a poem by Walt Whitman, followed by a speech from Saint Laurent's long-time partner and business associate Pierre Berge.
"You could have slid into fashions at times, but instead you remained faithful to your own style, and you were quite right, for that style is now everywhere, perhaps not on fashion catwalks but in the streets of the whole world," Berge said.
