(FILES) French designer Yves Saint-Laure

(FILES) French designer Yves Saint-Laurent (C) salutes the crowd with French model Laetitia Casta (L) and French actress Catherine Deneuve (R) at the Centre Georges Pompidou art gallery in Paris, where the last Haute-Couture show ever of the designer took place. Yves Saint Laurent, one the top French designers of the 20th century, died in the evening on June 01, 2008 in Paris, the Pierre-Berge-Saint Laurent Foundation said. The reclusive French maestro, who had retired from haute couture in 2002 after four decades at the top of his trade, had been ill for some time. AFP PHOTO JEAN-PIERRE MULLER (Photo credit should read JEAN-PIERRE MULLER/AFP via Getty Images)