Yves Saint Laurent bids adieu. (Fashion).(Brief Article)

When my sister left college and got her first job as a teacher, she went out and celebrated by spending her first paycheck on a bottle of Yves Saint Laurent's Rive Gauche perfume. For her, owning that bottle with its distinctive floral fragrance and blue and black packaging, was tantamount to owning a little bit of French haute couture and the nearest she was going to get to it for many years to come. That was twenty years ago, and she is still wearing Rive Gauche.

I experienced a wave of nostalgia when I learned that the French couturier and icon was retiring from the