Naomi Campbell about Yves Saint Laurent (Audio)

Naomi Campbell has paid tribute to legendary fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent following his death, aged 71, on Sunday evening. Campbell, who has always been outspoken about race issues in fashion, credits Saint Laurent with her success in the fashion industry.
"My first Vogue cover ever was because of this man," the supermodel told Channel 4 News. "Because when I said to him 'Yves, they won't give me a French Vogue cover, they won't put a black girl on the cover' and he was like 'I'll take care of that,' and he did."
In a show of solidarity with the eponymous fashion house the designer founded in 1962, Campbell wore a YSL autumn/winter 2008-9 creation - designed by the house's now-creative director Stefano Pilati - to the CFDA Awards in New York yesterday evening.
"He was the king of fashion," Campbell added in the interview. "He created pret-a-porter, he was the first designer to put women of colour on the runway. He was extremely important in my career, giving me one of my first jobs." "He has done everything. He's done it. If you go to the museum you will see he has done it all. He has done so much for people of colour."

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[0dour]

YSL threatened to boycott Vogue Paris for refusing to put Naomi (or black models in general) on it's cover he must have been very close to her.. he broke many racial barriers.. he put Chinese model Du Juan in his campaign and she ended up the first asian to be on Vogue Paris' cover RIP.

[sheWASlike]

aww, makes me wanna cry :( and people say she has no emotions. :(

R.I.P.

[vergiber]

search  bolder gazet van antwerpen

[EXCLUSIVENEXOTIC]

I LOVE YOU

[jeffreyBboy]

BRAVO YSL, YOU WILL BE MISSED.

[edmondo234]

oh yeah i know for sure but i just saying gianni was best friend out of all the designers and made her the spokes person for his line when he was alive.

[PurpleNightButterfly]

there is a huge difference between versace and YSL...for historical importance for women of color on the runway YSL is the pioneer

[edmondo234]

you should of seen her interview after gianni versace died she was a disaster. that her was best friend

[PurpleNightButterfly]

knowing how contreversial Naomi is...its so great to see how touched she was by YSL death

its real and you can feel it, and yes as a black woman(like iman) she ows her career to him

[elleno1957]

Who wrote the script?

[ChicFashion777]

Naomi I have been soo sad since yesterday about Yves Saint Laurent. I am crying right now and it's one year since Yves has been gone. There will never be another Yves Saint Laurent that's for sure.