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Ο Pierre Berge, σύντροφος του γάλλου σχεδιαστή μόδας Yves Saint Laurent, βγάζει τον επικήδειο λόγο στην κηδεία του αγαπημένου του ( δείτε το βίντεο πιέζοντας εδώ ).
Λίγο πριν, ο Νικολά Σαρκοζί και η Κάρλα Μπρούνι τον έχουν συλλυπηθεί ως χήρο του εκλιπόντος.
Στην Γαλλία δεν ισχύει ο γάμος ομοφύλων αλλά ένα αδύναμο Σύμφωνο Συμβίωσης.
Λίγο πριν, ο Νικολά Σαρκοζί και η Κάρλα Μπρούνι τον έχουν συλλυπηθεί ως χήρο του εκλιπόντος.
Στην Γαλλία δεν ισχύει ο γάμος ομοφύλων αλλά ένα αδύναμο Σύμφωνο Συμβίωσης.
Pierre Bergé
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήPierre Bergé (November 14, 1930- ) is a French industrialist and patron. He is perhaps best known as the co-founder of Yves Saint Laurent Couture House and sometime companion of Fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent.
Early life
He was born at in Oléron (Charente-Maritime). His mother Christiane was an amateur soprano and a progressist teacher who used the Montessori method. His father worked for the tax office and was a great rugby enthusiast. Bergé attended the Lycée Eugène Fromentin in La Rochelle, and later went to Paris. On the day of his arrival, as he was walking on the Champs-Élysées, French poet Jacques Prévert fell on him while attempting suicide.
Yves Saint Laurent
Main article: Yves Saint Laurent (designer)
Bergé met Yves Saint Laurent in 1958. They became romantically involved and together launched Yves Saint Laurent Couture House in 1961. The couple split romantically in 1976 but remained friends and business partners. Bergé acted as C.E.O. of Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture until it shuttered in 2002. Highly protective and invested in the reputation and legacy of Saint Laurent Couture, Bergé was known as the "Dean of Yves Saint Laurent"
In 1992, Bergé sold shares of the fashion house just before the company released a poor economic report. In 1996, this action was deemed to be insider trading and he was sentenced to a fine of one million Francs. After the close of the Couture House, Bergé became President of The Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent Foundation.
On June 2, 2008, it was Bergé who announced the death to the world of Yves Saint Laurent, who had died after a long illness.
Philanthropic, cultural, and political interests
In 1987 Bergé launched the French magazine Globe, which supported the candidacy of François Mitterrand for the presidential election. Bergé participated in all the campaign rallies of François Mitterrand (contrary to 1981, when he did not vote for Mitterrand[citation needed]). Bergé later went on to serve as President of the association of the friends of Institut François-Mitterrand. In 1993, he helped to launch the magazine Globe Hebdo.
A longtime fan and patron of Opera, Mitterrand appointed Bergé president of Opéra Bastille on August 31st 1988. He retired from the post in 1994, becoming honorary President of the Paris National Opera. He currently serves as President of the Médiathèque Musicale Mahler, a non-profit organization dedicated to the public presentations of 19th and 20th century music.
A supporter of gay rights, he supported the association against AIDS, Act Up-Paris, and assumed ownership of the magazine Têtu. He was also one of the shareholders of Pink TV, before withdrawing. In 1994, he participated with Line Renaud in the creation of the AIDS association Sidaction, and he became its president in 1996, a position he still holds today. Sidaction is one of the main associations fighting AIDS in Europe.
Bergé's philanthropic patronages have included UNESCO. In July, 1992, Bergé was appointed UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.
In 2007 he supported the candidacy of Ségolène Royal
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Pierre Berge bids a tearful adieu to designer Yves Saint Laurent
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήThe following is a live report from Dana Thomas, the Paris-based culture journalist and author of "Deluxe, How Luxury Lost Its Luster."
Yves Saint Laurent's funeral was held at Eglise Saint-Roche in the 1st arrondisement with more than 600 guests in attendance. Sitting in the front rows: his longtime partner and former lover, Pierre Berge; Saint Laurent's mother; French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni Sarkozy; Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe; and Madame Chirac.
Also there: Catherine Deneuve; Sonia Rykiel; Jean Paul Gaultier; Christian Lacroix; John Galliano; Bernard Arnault; Valentino's partner, Giancarlo Giammetti; philosopher/author Bernard Henri-Levy; and model/actress Laetitia Casta.
Notably missing: Karl Lagerfeld, who started his career at exactly the same time as YSL, when they shared the International Wool Secretariat award in 1954.
An orchestra played Brahms, music selected by Berge. Deneuve read a poem selected by Berge. Sarko and Bruni were welcomed by Berge out front. Bruni wore a black pantsuit with a black T-shirt.
A dark wood coffin was draped in yellow with green embroidery, reportedly the colors of the Saint Laurent family. The streets were blocked off, and the sidewalk barricades were lined with the designer's fans and mourners.
Here is a translation of Berge's tearful farewell speech.
"It’s the last time I speak to you, Yves.
"I remember the first time we met and those days that followed. The day we decided to be together.
"I remember telling you in your bed at Val de Grace hospital that you were no longer the head of the couture house where you worked, and I remember your reaction. ...
"I remember your first collection under your name and the tears at the end. Then the years passed. Oh, how they passed quickly. The divorce was inevitable but the love never stopped."
What stuck Berge the most, he said, was Saint Laurent’s “rigor and exigence.”
"We find the style you created everywhere today.
"Chanel and you were the great couturiers of the 20th century. She of the first half, you the second.
“You constructed an oeuvre,” he said and compared its beauty and mastery to “a garden of Le Notre or a beautiful Matisse.”
"I don’t know how to say good-bye because I can never leave you. We will never watch a sunset together again. We will never share the emotions together before a painting again. Someday I will join you under the palm trees of Morocco.
I want to tell you my admiration, my profound respect and my love."
He was in tears and barely got through the speech as his voice turned hoarse.
The service concluded with the very beautiful ballad by Jacques Brel, "Le Chanson des Vieux Amants" ("The Song of Old Lovers").
The church was filled with massive bouquets of white roses and lilies. The coffin had a mustard yellow draping with little bouquets of real wheat on it.