Fashion Scene

Arts and Entertainment, second prize stories

00-01-2002

Yves Saint Laurent lunches at home. The veteran French designer Yves Saint Laurent closed his offices after 40 years as a leader on the fashion scene. He gave his final haute couture show at Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in January.

Commissioned by: VII for Paris Match

Location: Paris, France

Photo Credit: Alexandra Boulat

Alexandra Boulat (May 2, 1962 – October 5, 2007) was a French photographer born in Paris. In 2001, she co-founded the VII Photo Agency. Her work has appeared in many magazines, including Time, Newsweek, Paris Match and National Geographic Magazine and she received numerous international awards. She was trained in graphic art and art history at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Before co-founding the VII Photo Agenct in 2001 she had been represented by SIPA Press and by her mother’s agency, Cosmos.

Since 2006, she had been concentrating primarily on the conflict in Gaza.

In June 2007, she suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm, and spent three weeks in a hospital in Israel in a medically induced coma. She was moved to France, where she remained in Coma. Thousands of colleagues and fans has expressed support for her. Boulat died in her sleep in Paris on October 2007.