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What makes some designers rise and soar like a shooting star, while thousands of others merely make clothes? Saint Laurent, along with Coco Chanel, perhaps the greatest fashion designer of the 20th century, was born 81 years ago today in Algeria. We have compiled a roster of fashions clearly inspired by Saint Laurent—“transit visas” for a season, a lifetime, of style and substance.

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