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Pierre Bergé, Yves Saint Laurent’s partner, dies at 86
the businessman passed away after a long illness
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Pierre Bergé, co-founder of the Yves Saint Laurent fashion house, has died following a long illness. He was 86.
The French businessman died in his sleep on Friday morning at his country home in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in the South of France.
Bergé and Saint Laurent founded the Yves Saint Laurent house in 1961. While Bergé headed the business side of the house, Saint Laurent took creative control of the designs. The pair were also lovers and were joined in a civil union in 2008. A few days later Saint Laurent died of a brain tumor.
Bergé served as CEO of Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture until 2002. A lover of arts and culture, he also was head of the Opera de Paris from 1988 to 1993. Bergé’s passion extended into gay rights as he created Sidaction, an organization committed to AIDS research and treatment, in 1994.
Before his death, Bergé, who had been open about his struggle with muscular dystrophy, was working on opening two Yves Saint Laurent museums in Paris and Marrakech. In June, he appeared at a press conference to unveil the projects in a wheelchair. He had planned to inaugurate the museums this fall.
Bergé is survived by his partner, American landscape gardener Madison Cox, who he married in March 2017.
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This John Waters interview has been edited for readability — but perhaps not human decency
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By WESLEY CASE | At 80 years old, John Waters is still the ideal dinner guest — incisively sharp, quick-witted and funny as hell.
The chic Baltimore native proved it again and again in a recent Zoom interview, calling from his summer home in Provincetown, Mass.
The occasion was the Blu-ray releases of two of his movies — the 1977 dark comedy “Desperate Living” and his enduring 1988 musical “Hairspray” — on June 23 by the Criterion Collection, which publishes restorations of films it deems culturally important. The Criterion stamp of approval has become the gold standard among cinephiles.
“It’s like getting an award,” said Waters, who wrote and directed both films.
The rest of this article can be read on the Baltimore Banner’s website.
The Washington Blade held the seventh annual Pride on the Pier at The Wharf DC on Saturday, June 13.
(Washington Blade photos by Landon Shackelford)
The 2026 Lost River Pride Festival was held on the scenic grounds of the Lost River Farmers Market in Lost City, W.Va. on Saturday, June 13. Headliner Tom Goss performed at the festival and gave a second performance at the nearby Guesthouse Lost River.
(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
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